Louis LeRoy, endless work in time and space - Beate Lendt (Nederland, 2009, 15:00 min.)

Short portrait of the Dutch artist-philosopher Louis Le Roy and his work the ‘ecokathedraal’ (eco-cathedral) in Mildam in the North of Holland. Thirty years ago, Le Roy started his experiment, a project that is open-ended in terms of time. On a 4ha site, he started planting in a completely random manner. For years road workers dumped their residual materials at the site. Le Roy processed this material by hand without any outside assistance. The result was the building of assorted structures, low walls, pathways and towers that due to their ingenious construction could serve as purification plants for acid rain. Le Roy talks about the philosophy behind this work, his idea of cities, nature and the endlessness of time and space.