Landscape Landscape

2022 – 24

12m 5s

A film about trees and storms and time and forever and snow and wind and summer and latin names I won’t remember and phone cameras and getting a tripod and duration and collapse and movement and spotted flycatchers and that old disposable waterproof camera and indexing and a sketchbook and persistence and forest bathing and rest and trees and trees and trees and trees and childhood and familiarity and memories and sentimentality and common names and legacy and rot and replacement and the wood wide web and what even is that? and breath and waiting and snow and erratic weather and climate anxiety and small pleasures.

Landscape Landscape follows a series of fallen trees over the course of 13 months in the aftermath of Storm Arwen – one of the increasingly frequent and alarming weather events to cause damage to woodlands across the British isles.

Landscape Landscape was first shown in exhibition at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival 2025 – photographs by Sanne Gault:

In a dark room, a screen shows a sideways woodland landscape. Polaroid photographs of the woods are suspended in the air around it.
A polaroid photograph of a green landscape hangs on a thread in a dark room
a polaroid photograph floats in front of an out-of-focus screen showing a woodland scene

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See more about works related to this long-term project in these places and on my blog:

Video:
Portrait / Landscape
Nice Pictures of Trees
Tastes Like Falling Apart
The online quiz said my Dæmon would have been a Red Squirrel
A Sacrifice to the Midges

Books:
Instant Photos from an Ancient Woodland: Autumn
Instant Photos from an Ancient Woodland in Winter
Reflections on Two Photographs