with Robbie Thomson
‘STANDSTILL OF THE MOON IN THE NORTH: PART 1’ IS A CULMINATION OF INITIAL RESEARCH INTO NEOLITHIC CULTURES OF THE WESTERN ISLES. THIS SHORT FILM PULLS A NARRATIVE THREAD BETWEEN THE NATIVITY OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, THE CLIMATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANXIETY THAT WE CURRENTLY ENDURE AND THE SPECIES’ DRIVE TOWARDS SALVATION/ DESTRUCTION IN THE EXTERNALITY OF SPACE. IN COLLAPSING THIS 5000 YEAR TIMESPAN WE ENCOUNTER A SUBMERGED PREHISTORIC FOREST, A POETIC HAUNTOLOGY OF ROCKS AS RECORDS AND IMPRESSIONISTIC VISIONS OF THE LIMINAL PLACES OF PERCEPTION.
First shown as part of CCA Present Futures 2021, produced by Feral
thanks to:
Jon Macleod
Anne Campbell
Ian McHardy
Euan Macleod
Cass Ezeji
SCReenings:
2021
Online screening, Present Futures 2021, produced by CCA,Glasgow and Feral
Press:
“encourage[s] us to take a wider view and think in deep time; far into the past to the earliest forms of technology, and far into the future past the end of the anthropocene” – Exeunt Magazine