Experiment 2
Experiment 2
Restless Nature :
This single screen video work involved footage shot from a helium balloon. The camera rose up from the forest floor into the oak leaf canopy and down again, as if floating on water. The visual and audio tracks played with the ways that landscape is, and has been imaged; creating unsettled footage which seems hunted or pursued, instead of the steady crane shots of woodland canopies seen on TV wildlife programmes.
The soundtrack included footage from news channels around the world reporting on inundation, and the affects of climate change. With the exception of the first three sound-bites relating to the flooding in the Lake District in winter 2009, all other reports were recorded over two weeks in late January 2011, when there was severe flooding in Australia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Brazil, Pakistan, and Benin.
Restless Nature aims to test our capacity to articulate climate change with temperate as well as tropical forests ; and ways that forest landscapes might be re imaged - and possibly re imagined- in the future.
This single screen video work involved footage shot from a helium balloon. The camera rose up from the forest floor into the oak leaf canopy and down again, as if floating on water. The visual and audio tracks played with the ways that landscape is, and has been imaged; creating unsettled footage which seems hunted or pursued, instead of the steady crane shots of woodland canopies seen on TV wildlife programmes.
The soundtrack included footage from news channels around the world reporting on inundation, and the affects of climate change. With the exception of the first three sound-bites relating to the flooding in the Lake District in winter 2009, all other reports were recorded over two weeks in late January 2011, when there was severe flooding in Australia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Brazil, Pakistan, and Benin.
Restless Nature aims to test our capacity to articulate climate change with temperate as well as tropical forests ; and ways that forest landscapes might be re imaged - and possibly re imagined- in the future.