Dear Future Film Festival 2023
A Year in a Field PLUS 'The Marks We Leave'
A meditation on the passage of time through highlighting nature and the subtle changes of the seasons, plus a live film mix made with clips filmed during the afternoon 'forest bathing' session and live music mix by Ed Boxall.
Director: Christopher Morris / Rebecca E Marshall
Cast includes: NA
86mins / 10mins, UK / UK
Presented by Dear Future, a live cinema organisation. Dear Future explores ways of thinking into the future by bringing together film, conversation and creativity.
Weathering the elements in the centre of a field in West Cornwall is the Longstone, a natural relic that has quietly witnessed 4,000 years of tumultuous history. Morris’ elegiac, meditative, yet profoundly important film is the record of a year in the life of the monolith, beginning on Winter Solstice 2020, as the order of the natural world began unravelling around the globe and the threat of extreme climate change became a reality. Morris himself describes his film as “a direct action of stillness.”
Beautifully shot, with a richly layered sound design, the film meditates on the passage of time through its appreciation of nature, highlighting the subtle changes of the seasons, but also the need to act in order to battle man-made changes that will forever change our planet.
“The film is a visual poem. It is inspiring, uplifting and engaging. I was deeply moved while watching it. The film illuminates the magic of nature and evokes a profound love for nature. Only through love of nature we can address the crisis of climate change. Watching A Year in a Field is a transformative experience.” — Satish Kumar, Founder, Schumacher College and Editor Emeritus Resurgence & Ecologist
Plus:'The Marks We Leave’
A live film mix made with clips filmed by Rebecca Marshall in the Dear Future afternoon forest bathing workshop. Footsteps, intentions, indentations, breath, chance, new cycles. Footage of traces both unwitting and deliberate, from 12 people who took part in the forest bathing workshop earlier in the day.
Ed Boxall will play a live music mix with Rebecca's film.
This film is F-Rated. The F-Rating is applied to all films which are directed by women and/or written by women. Find out more about F-Rating.
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