The Creator of the Jungle

In a wood near the Catalan village of Argelaguer, an eccentric recluse has spent 45 years building the most amazing, labyrinthine, dreamlike structures. He creates tree houses, mazes and waterfalls – all with his bare hands. It looks like the set for a jungle adventure film. Garrell has just one aim, to ‘keep busy’. Everyone is welcome in his jungle – the woods do not belong just to him.
The eccentric but loveable Garrell also calls himself ‘the Tarzan of Argelaguer’. One day, a local teenager who sometimes came to play brought a video camera along; for years, he and Garrell filmed scenes as if acting in a Tarzan film, including wicked intruders with machines that drive the King from his Jungle.
Filmmaker Morató uses this fascinating footage, combining it with documentary material from later years (when the Jungle was repeatedly razed and then built up again by its creator), in an intriguing debut that respectfully keeps the enigma that is Garrell alive.

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