Marion County, Oregon, is on fire right now. As you know, we're talking dark, catastrophic, holy-shit-it's-coming-into-my-house-all-the-way-in-Seattle fires. Most of the county has found itself under Level 3 evacuations, which means the area's dense, natural beauty is currently skewered. This brings us to Home in the Woods, an immersive visual documentary filmed over two years in Marion County. The camera captures the fodder for all this smoke: the baby spiders and slugs and bees. It was strange to watch this huddled up inside my home, avoiding the smoke from fires burning in this same part of the world. Most of the film is abstracted, alternating between black-and-white and colorful psychedelia. What feels like bleak horror pivots to a drug trip, and back again. (Horror and psychedelia are a forest's two genders.) Don't adventure into this doc expecting a narrative. Just sit there and contemplate the deepness of the woods. Then look up at the sky outside your home. You see those particles in the air? You feel them in your throat? What you're watching crawl around in this film is what you're breathing in your lungs. That's life, baby. CHASE BURNS

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