Hello,
How’s it going? It’s been a while, I know. I’m very distractible at the moment, or always? Probably always. Just one bit of news today, plus some small updates so I feel like progress is being made on a few of the various projects!
Landscape Landscape, the 12-ish minute film I made between 2022 and 2024 in the woods after Storm Arwen squashed them is going to be exhibited at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival 2025, woohoo! If you’ve been here a while, you’ll know I love Alchemy, and that I’ll be pleased as punch to announce this. The entire programme looks great, and I’m especially excited for Arcade Machine, We Deh Here, Rum An Milk, On Weaving, the Film Quiz (a quiz, not a film), and Miwa Nagato-Apthorp, but the whole programme will doubtless be wonderful.
The exhibition is open throughout their festival in Hawick, Scottish Borders, from 1-4 May. It’ll be in the Heritage Hub, with step-free access, and is free to visit. I’ll likely be around all weekend too, so do say hi! I’ll probably be wearing yellow.
Other updates include a project called Tree Funeral / Shroud Film. The Tree Funeral itself happened on the 31st of January, somewhere in the woods, and we (we! more on that in a later post about the actual project!) documented it with a handful of digital cameras, including my trusty fuji finepix 7.1megapixel bridge camera. Here’s a still, please enjoy the crispy texture:
I’m also getting ready to send Instant Photos from an Ancient Woodland: Autumn to print, which is what I really should be doing right now, rather than blabbering on at the blog. If you missed out on the Kickstarter, send me a message, and I can hook you up with a book for £25. Here’s a little preview of the cover:
Jessie x
Alchemy’s full 2025 programme is here
Details for Landscape Landscape at Alchemy are here
See a preview of Landscape Landscape here
To order a copy of Instant Photos from an Ancient Woodland: Autumn, contact me
Jessie Growden 