Ruben Smit contracted Lyme disease and could no longer tolerate anything: ‘Appeared to be in my brain’

Thickets are his field of activity. The successful nature filmmaker Ruben Smit (50) – maker of Black-tailed Godwit! and the award-winning The New Wilderness – contracted Lyme, it was even in his brain. For years he lived in darkness, now he sees the world differently. ‘A bush, a wilted flower, it has life force,’ he tells our weekend magazine Mezza.

ttn-43