on converting a spruce plantation into a forest & other projects that inspire, by Cathy Fitzgerald
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I like to make people stop using their eyes so much and pay more attention to the other senses like sound and touch. Touch is mostly noticeable as a sensation on your skin or your body when you are walking through a space, how you feel in a space. This is also [...]
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Part of my interest in creating films with an ecological theme is also observing how such films can travel, online and across the world. Film festivals dedicated solely to ecological concerns are a recent enough phenomena and its interesting that many are mimicking the short online film and social networked formats that you see used [...]
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One of the biggest problems in trying to engage people about climate change is that it’s a very abstract idea. Apart from all the controversy at the moment that is distracting attention and understanding from the very worrying facts gathered by thousands of the world’s leading scientists, it still remains very far removed from people’s [...]
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Hi everyone
Some of you might remember my short film ‘Burning Bright’ that I created for Ireland’’s Biodiversity week last year -it’s a small gesture about what I’ve been learning about sustainable forestry.
Well it has just been selected for the Irish Green Party’s 2009 youtube competition – an award will go to the film most viewed, [...]
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A little plug for Irish Tree week 2008- I did the Irish ‘local project’ art- tree project awhile back and had been meaning to get it online for ages -hence this blog too. Although the ‘local project’ exhibition at The Dock in Co [...]
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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.
rsa art & ecology blog Nils L. Elliot: Mediating Nature
