Leaves of London is my current film project. The film is now complete and I am currently exploring screening opportunities and potential partnerships.
Leaves of London is a short documentary exploring the emotional relationships people form with trees in an urban environment. Set across London, a city home to an estimated 8.4 million trees, the film focuses not on scale or spectacle, but on the quiet, personal meanings that individual trees can hold in everyday life.
The film unfolds through four personal stories, each centred on a single tree and the person who returns to it. These stories move between themes of memory, movement, love, grounding, and change, and together form a portrait of how nature continues to shape and reflect human experience within one of the world’s busiest cities.
The project began as a broader exploration of London’s urban forest, but during the interview process it became clear that the emotional weight of individual stories offered a more intimate way into the subject. The final film connects four distinct voices through recurring images of trees across the city, suggesting a shared emotional landscape beneath very different lives.
Leaves of London is intended as a quiet, reflective piece of human-centred documentary, a film about attention, presence, and the ways we anchor our lives to the natural world around us.
For possible collaborations, screenings, or other enquiries, please get in touch at joshuageer1@gmail.com.
