Screening and filmmaker conversation as part of this first Dark Mountain film event.

In the week that would have followed Edinburgh Fringe 2020 we were going to be hosting a free International Artist’s Lab – Thinking Through Practice, at Dance Base. The Covid-complicated world meant that this wasn’t possible. So, instead we came together for the first time – since lockdown - to explore what it was to gently be alongside each other again…”

…of sand, mustard, sunlight;
doubtless dandelions, canaries; too
dizzy yellow of pollen-drunk bees, a cloud of
Clouded Yellows…

….Revealing the complex, interrelated web of movement, minerals and processes present in both soil and humans, how might we queerly reimagine radical possibilities for a more enlivened, just world?

“Everything we do is done by invitation. That invitation comes either from oneself or another person.” — John Cage

….This assemblage of notes, written in response to screen dance festival’s invitation and during a time of balancing on the incline of a particularly challenging economic, social and emotional hill is deliberately small in scope, it’s unacademic and is offered up in the spirit of a low-strain angle. It considers, How The Earth Must See Itself -a film which amongst other things attempts to be with things rather than capture them; to value observation and sustained attention to whatever environment we’re in; to see human beings as an intrinsic element of an eco-system, but only as one element amongst many. A film whose choreography is determined by light and time as much as the intended movements of performers, words and sounds. A film recorded on S16mm negative but which currently exists only in a digital form….