This screening is held in conjunction with the exhibition The Hands That Shut the Sun, at Hollybush Gardens, running from 14 March - 26 April 2025. This is a group exhibition tracing the entanglement of humans, animals, plants, and the land we share.
While filming in Columbia in 2022, artist Eline McGeorge observed when the camera met the gaze of the birds feeding on the moringa tree: Who is witnessing who in the presence of countless forms of sentience? Among all this knowledge of life inherited and shared, where are the borders between the material and consciousness?
The narratives in these six short films unfold in the spaces between the material and consciousness, the human and non-human, and our relationships with the land, from the tender holding of lost and maintained traditions to complex pasts and imagined futures.
1. Cecilia Vicuña and Robert Kolodny, Death of the Pollinators, 2021
A film by Robert Kolodny using poems and sounds of Cecilia Vicuña and auditory landscapes of musician Ricardo Gallo, telling the story of the death of the Earth's pollinating insects.
2. Eline McGeorge, Fieldnote video - to be part to be many, 2024
McGeorge’s project documents places and situations of various scales – from gigantic open pit coal mining landscapes in Colombia and adjacent hotspots for bird biodiversity, to tiny succulent plants native to a diamond-mined region of the Namib desert.
3. Lucy Beech, A video-essay version of Flush, 2023
Blending documentary, reenactment and poetry Flush focuses on flows of bodily waste in and out of hum/animal bodies in the making of reproductive science.
4. Dani Leventhal & Jared Buckhiester, Hard as Opal, 2015
A soldier's trip to Syria is complicated when he accidentally impregnates a friend. Meanwhile, a horse breeder from Ohio is driven away from home by her own desire to become pregnant.
5. Charlie Prodger, LHB, 2017
Fluctuating between the macro of geopolitical land use and the micro of the personal-political body, Prodger explores the complex relationships between bodies, identity, technology and time.
6. Stephanie Comilang, Search for Life I, 2024
Search for Life is a visual adventure and a profound reflection on history, identity and interconnection among different forms of life
on our planet.