Praise -- Film Description:
"A prologue excerpt from the poem 'Try to praise the mutilated world' sets the mood for this film of contained contrasts: black and white, negative and positive, light and dark. Recurring images of trees root the film, unifying its segments, and suggest further twinnings: (knowledge of) good and evil, humanity and nature, ephemeral and eternal—praise and mutilation. [...]"
-- Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Source:
"CFMDC Film Catalogue" Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. http://www.cfmdc.org/.