Into the Forest takes the viewer on a journey that starts by standing up in a museum facing a circular screen whilst wearing a pair of stereoscopic 3D glasses and ends up with him leaving the room with something new. Although this is not entirely new to him, it's that inner wildness he once had a long time ago but lost. It succumbed to the machine of society, to its expectations, its parameters, its mechanized systems. It is only the artists’ unique way of communication that is able to portray this inner wildness in such a way for the viewer to experience it and then recover it. It’s a long process that begins with motion capturing children moving and playing around freely, followed by representing them as nothing more than shadows with no specific details or features and therefore isolating their movement in a mimetic way. Then they bring the children, and the forest they are playing in, to three dimensional life making it real to the viewer. And to finish with, not only can he see this real scene but he can also feel it and coexist with it by occupying a physical space in it. At the very end the viewer is not admiring an art piece any more but he is re-experiencing an idea, a feeling, and a crucial part of his childhood, he is awakening his inner wildness.

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