Treevenge details the experiences and horrifying reality of the lives of Christmas trees. Clearly, for trees, Christmas isn’t the exciting “peace on earth” that is experienced by most. After being hacked down, and shipped away from their homes, they quickly become strung up, screwed into an upright position for all to see, exposed in a humiliation of garish decorations. But this Christmas will be different, this Christmas the trees have had enough, this Christmas the trees will fight back. Treevenge could be a short film about the end of days for Christmas trees, or perhaps, the end of humanity?
This short film has forever changed the way I view Christmas trees and how I choose to celebrate the season. The complicated interpersonal histories between the trees are only amplified by the deeper mystery we see unfold as foresters begin to wield their instruments of terror. Even as we learn of one particular sapling, unadulterated as the freshly driven snow, valiantly attempts to...Oh who am I kidding, it's a movie about Christmas trees killing people and it's awesome.