Fairy Tracks: In Search of the Spirit in Nature

Jerry Wellman
USA, documentary, 2007
39 mins. (MiniDV)

What should our impulse be as the human representatives in the council of nature? This question is as old as humanity and will continue to engage us forever. Fairy Tracks, a 39 minute lyrical documentary essay, investigates ways to define nature. Those interviewed include children, a Rabbi, a nun, ecologists, a philosopher, a psychologist, Eskimos, and a physicist. The film contains shots of the glories of nature, the not so charming images of a human dominated landscape, whimsical animation sequences, children