Picture Show At The End of The World 06/11/20

Dark Mountain - a journal, a manifesto, a gathering place and labour of love - curated their first film event and How The Earth Must See Itself (A Thirling) was one of seven films selected. Conceived as a collection of ‘uncivilised films’ originally planned for a cinema event in April 2020, the salon was reconfigured via Vimeo and Zoom with a group screening and then a gathering of filmmakers and audience in an online conversation.

From the Dark Mountain website: Welcome in the beginning of winter with a Dark Mountain-slanted light show. Hosted by filmmaker Jonny Randall a selection of short films will be screened over the course of an hour, featuring: visual poetry; a cinematic meditation on the Cairngorms; surreal eco-horror animation; a collaborative ritual between artist and tree; voices on what it means to re-indigenise and a multispecies ethnographic collaboration between humans and donkeys.  

The films will be followed by a post-screening conversation with some of the filmmakers, as well as a chance for you to ask questions and offer reflections around our cinematic hearth. 

 To celebrate the films, we invite you to join us for this online screening event on Friday 6th November, from 19:00 to 21:00 GMT. While it’s a shame that we can’t gather physically in a cinema, we’re excited to welcome filmmakers and viewers from around the world.