Tomb Raider

filmed at Ta Prohm, a temple that was once home to 600 exotic dancers.

Seeded in accumulated bird droppings, one great tree sprouted, to the eventual embrace and envelopment by another.

“The fig tree is the ruler of Angkor, over the palaces and over the temples which it has patiently pried apart, everywhere it unfolds its smooth pale branches, like the coils of a serpent, and its dome of foliage.”
– George Coedes, 1943