Ilona Huss Walin and Ambjörn Göransson in cooperation with forestry engineer Martin Jantzen
The deleted concept

The deleted concept
2021 Video, 14 min 
by Ambjörn Göransson and Ilona Huss Walin, 
in cooperation with forestry engineer Martin Jantzen



The Deleted Concept is a documentary about the spontaneous development of forests and close-to-nature forestry, in which humanity is seen as an integral part of nature, rather than its overarching subject. With the help of some notable pointers for seeing how forests grow, possibilities for a changed understanding of forests and forestry are presented. “The forest doesn`t make mistakes”. By letting naturally sown trees grow and thrive and cutting down large and profitable ones, the forests’ own processes can shape future forests, rather than human decisions. The film shows forests of various origins where close-to-nature forestry is used in contrast with conventionally cultivated forests. While forestry methods have been under intense discussion in recent years, the close-to-nature approach has lately become even more topical since the Swedish government tried to exclude it from the guidelines for sustainable investments in the European Union, favoring conventional forestry. Mixing informational and art film genres, this film portrays the forest and the (actual) peripheral role of humanity within it.

Ilona Huss Walin is a visual artist from Gothenburg. For more than twenty years, she has worked with video, installation and performance. She has taken part in many exhibitions, especially in the Nordic countries. For the past seven years, she has approached nature in environmental matters. An important part of her work is about creating in collaboration with others. She is educated at the Bergen Academy of Art and at the Valand Academy of Art in Gothenburg. Homepage

Ambjörn Göransson is a filmmaker from Gothenburg who has created several short documentaries and video installations. He is a member of the art and music collective Den Svenska Björnstammen. He has studied film production at Valand.

Martin Jentzen is a forest engineer who, after working for forest industry companies for many years, left the more conventional forestry to work closer to nature. This means that in your forestry you respect and study the forest’s own inherent processes.