Earthing 2023
Maid Mother Crone Production
The Earthing Production team have spent much of 2023 editing the teaser for our nascent feature film in development, Maid Mother Crone. Nadia Dermatopoulou our in-house editor took the lead on postproduction. Alice Miller our cinematographer made the colour grade and Nadia, Alice and Darren Hamilton all contributed invaluably to the SFX. We completed work on the teaser in September and have begun the process of submitting it to festivals.
Nadia is now in the final stages of her National Film & Television School production course funded by Creative Scotland. We are thrilled to finally have a producer at the core of our team and are wildly proud of her remotely studying, editing, and working full-time in Athens.
When Fish Begin To Crawl
Morag Mckinnon has continued to co-direct and co-produce “When Fish Begin To Crawl” with composer Jim Sutherland. They have worked tirelessly to create this extraordinary piece of work. The film will have its Orchestral World Premier in 2024 with details to be confirmed in the near future.
“When Fish Begin To Crawl is a meditation on the climate crisis and humanity’s relationship with nature, embodying an urgent yet hopeful dialogue between art and science, spanning geological deep time and present-day eco-emergencies. This triptych film’s original score was been pre-recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.”
More details can be found @whenfishcrawl, on Facebook and also here at Film and Campaign.
Movement in Landscape at The Dreaming
In May Rebecca Palmer was part of writer and broadcaster Gemma Cairney’s artist in residence program at The Dreaming, https://www.thedreaming.co.uk/ Charlotte Church’s glorious and profound embodied wellness retreat in Wales.
“The Dreaming is a place for healing through experiencing beauty and wonder. It is a place for everyone: affordable and inclusive, where anyone can learn to heal and even become the healer that their community needs.”
As part of Gemma’s workshop, Rebecca talked about her experience of working with and in nature on Earthing Project. With the participants’ engagement, Rebecca led movement in landscape, and asked what vitality and knowledge can happen when we choose to bring nature into the landscape of our bodies. How we can re-evaluate our relationship with nature when we rest our bodies on the ground. Having the opportunity to play and move in ancient woodland in collaboration with Gemma and the generous facilitators and guests at The Dreaming was magical and deeply rewarding. It was a wonderful example of practice and change in soulful action.
Indie Film on TV
In October Morag and Rebecca took part in a Q&A for Indie Film on TV with broadcaster and filmmaker Deborah Espect. The program was broadcast on Brighton’s Latest TV and Sheffield Live. They talked specifically about the evolution of Earthing September, discussed freedom of representation in their practice, the urge to embellish or conceal, how we choose our form and how their experience as filmmakers has developed and changed since they began working together. The episode was live-streamed on several dates in October and will hopefully become available online in the future. There is a trailer and article about September all the featured short films on the website thelatest.co.uk
Upcoming: MOTELX On Tour with DECAGRAM and Earthing Productions
28th October
We’re looking forward to welcoming you for a very special Saturday night - the last event at The Pianodrome in Ocean Terminal before all those pianos move out of the Wee Hub and onto their next adventure…
First in a dazzling array of art forms featuring at this final party, MOTELX On Tour, DECAGRAM and Earthing Productions present a special Edinburgh-Lisbon collaboration to bring out the Halloween in the Pianodrome: A 30-minute run of dark short films, including a cine-concert featuring a new live version of the stand-out original organ score to headline film ‘Misericordia’ adapted for piano and performed by Portuguese composer and pianist José Pedro Pinto, accompanied by acclaimed Scotland-based cellist and improviser Atzi Muramatsu.
This set of films brings two nations with reputations for different styles of dark film into dialogue, exposing the audience to the shadow-side of the human condition through new moving images that showcase emerging auteurs reinventing the horror genre.
With low budgets and snappy run-times, this series celebrates the subtlety, creativity and psychic impact that can be conjured without the need for huge CGI budgets - the works of Scotland-based Earthing Productions were filmed during the pandemic using only a single mobile phone.
Tickets available at Decagram.co
