WILD WOOD
2025 · 11m · USA
Directed by Taj Jenkins Musco
Genres: documentary, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
A three-act exploration of New England woodlands examining natural cycles and human-wilderness relations.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Three-act Koyaanisqatsi-in-New-England — the Telluride credentials and the Tiny score will be polished, the question is whether "forest as narrative subject" is a thesis or a Vimeo Staff Pick lookbook. I'm leaning lookbook.
Musco's explicit Koyaanisqatsi invocation is a heavy reference to claim, but his Telluride and Palm Springs pedigree suggests the cinematography may earn it. A ten-minute three-act forest piece by a Kodak award winner deserves a genuine look.
10:38 from a filmmaker with Telluride/Palm Springs/Tokyo Short Shorts credits and a Kodak Best Student Cinematography award — explicit Koyaanisqatsi lineage, three-act forest structure, and he scores his own films under 'Tiny.' This is the rare experimental nature short with festival pedigree that suggests the craft will match the framing.