Speaking for Trees: A Film by Mark Borthwick is a DVD/CD package by the American singer-songwriter Cat Power (a.k.a.
The DVD features footage of Cat Power singing and playing electric guitar in a forest at West Kill Mountain, New York, filmed by British photographer Mark Borthwick in mostly static shots lasting for approximately one hour and 40 minutes.
The CD contains the single song "Willie Deadwilder," an 18-minute outtake from the You Are Free sessions featuring American singer-songwriter M. Ward on guitar.
The song was reworked as "Willie", a six-minute track on Cat Power's 2006 album, The Greatest.
However, he praised "Willie Deadwilder" as "not just listenable but deeply intriguing," comparing it to the 1995 Sonic Youth song "The Diamond Sea" in that "every aspect of the track-- its lyrics, length, sense of performance-- conveys this idea: 'This is...our song/ And it will go on and on/ A moment in time traveling on/ Even if it is too long, I don't care.