“Some American Pines” is a 15 minute dual channel film, which juxtaposes narrative text taken from David Douglas’ 1823-1827 journal entries with visual material gathered over a year exploring the Irish landscape.The title of this film is borrowed from appendix VIII of David Douglas’ 1914 published journal. 2023 marks the bicentenary of David Douglas’ first plant hunting expeditions across the Atlantic ocean on behalf of the Royal Horticultural society. Among the many plants introduced into the European region as a result of these expeditions are two of particular interest to the contemporary forestry industry. Pseudotsuga menziesii commonly known as Douglas Fir used extensively as utility poles and Picea sitchensis, Sitka spruce, widely planted across the British Isles for its timber. This film situates these plant specimens and their histories within the contemporary Irish landscape documenting them 200 years on from their introduction. A variety of imaging technologies are utilised to explore the nuances of representation within our relationship to ecology. The narration creates a speculative distance from the documentation. This two channel installation brings into view factors which inform our contemporary relationship with ecology, while acknowledging the erasures upon which our current common sense is predicated. A core tenet of this film is that social relations inform our ecological relations, with this in mind the film documents the production of a utility pole. In documenting the production of a commodity a process of valorisation is revealed, where the material reality and ecological implication of that commodity is obscured. The film is interested in this extractive and semiotic relationship humans have with ecology which is explored further through the use of 3D imaging technologies as a mode of addressing the energy implications of the medium of film itself. This film is part of a wider research project exploring human and ecological interconnectedness through image making practices.