Directed by: Phie Ambo
Country of Origin: Denmark
Runtime: 55:00
Category: Documentary
ORGANIZED WILDNESS follows Denmark’s largest ever rewilding project. The sixth mass extinction is happening right now, and 80% of all species in Denmark have been exterminated in the last 20 years – with agriculture covering most of the land, wild nature is hard to find. Now it is time to push biodiversity in the right direction by bringing Hammer Hills in northern Jutland back to its original natural state. We follow the ambitious project from the first meetings and until the radical changes have been completed. Can humans work together to restore nature? And ultimately, how wild do we actually want nature to be?
Director Biography – Phie Ambo
Phie Ambo (born 1973) was trained at the National Film School of Denmark, graduating as a documentary film director in 2003. Famous for her feature length documentary films true to the tradition of poetic, personal and cinematic language, Ambo deals with essential topics such as family relations, love, creative processes and artificial life.
Phie Ambo has directed a number of award-winning films for the cinema, including major works such as Family (2001), Gambler (2005) Mechanical Love (2007) and Free the Mind (2012).
In recent years Ambo has been especially interested in pursuing work of a more thematic nature, and this in the form of a trilogy focusing on the relation between science and human existence.
In Mechanical Love (2007) which traveled widely on the international festival circuit, Ambo explored the relationship between human beings and robots and the nature of emotion itself. Released in 2012, Free the Mind deals with the impact that thoughts have on both the mind and the body. The last film in the trilogy, Ripples at the Shore, is about consciousness and is still in development.
In 2014 Ambo premiered with the film Good Things Await about biodynamic farming, which has received great attention around Europe.
In 2017 her film When You Look Away had its premiere and was selected at Hot Docs, IDFA, Sheffield Documentary Film Fest, CPH:DOX and other big documentary film festivals.
In 2021 her film 70/30 was the opening film at CPH:DOX Film Festival and was selected at festivals like Bergen International Film festival, One World Human Rights Film Festival and is still touring at festivals around the world.