on converting a spruce plantation into a forest & other projects that inspire, by Cathy Fitzgerald
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Well, my plan to watch the new climate change film online last night, the Age of Stupid [...]
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As some of you know I was recently back to my first home of New Zealand to visit my family. I love the opportunity whenever home to visit virgin forest areas, simply referred to as as ‘bush’ by New Zealanders. It’s what I find most special about my country from a perspective of now living [...]
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My art & ecology notebook documents a SLOW ART project. It's an ongoing diary in images, short films; conversations between myself, foresters, our local community & beyond, detailing an example of how we are turning our small monoculture spruce plantation into an ecologically & economically, permanent real FOREST.
I am also interested in using film to convey personal stories of small backyard environmental actions in response to global ecological concerns. I am developing a personal, poetic narrative film-making style, that while documentary in certain aspects, allows a larger range of ideas and emotions to be presented, in contrast to standard nature documentaries.
My project 'the Holly Wood Diaries'has allowed me to create two experimental film sketches, 'burning bright' (08) and 'once i counted birds' (09) and builds on previous stories with beginner foresters and their young trees/new woodlands in the more traditionally styled documentary film 'the local project revisited', 2006
I also write about other eco-art works that inspire me & which may be inspire others.
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