I am the land

I am the land is a poem of belonging, stomped and chanted into life through a year of seasons roaming the rich and mystic wilds of Dartmoor, England. An offering of words teased from thorny gorse with syllables honed on granite nooks. The 16mm analogue film is layered and coaxed into life, emulating the light and character of the landscape, from the stillness of the moorland expanse to the rugged hum of portentous standing stones. The narration is accompanied by a dilating soundscape that invokes the sense of awe one feels when eking out a moment from our busy lives to be present among the hills.  But the land who reaches to grip you through the screen is not one who suffers meekly at our neglect, but the very heart of the matter, a land who patiently holds our suffering, longing that we reconnect… (9min)

Rachael Jones during filming at Merrivale