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Learn more- Earthing August is our freedom to choose the beginning and the end. Beach combing, wind turning feathers, pulling hair, ruffling fur, salting skin. We twist within a reclaimed Selkie cycle of freedom, sensuality found and subjugation dismantled. Play hide and seek in the grains of sand and roll in the tug of the waves. The tide calls, we return and return on it, twist and billow in the waves. Stand tall in the water, strong in the current, lift it and let it carry you back to where you belong. We love, we live in an echo of the water we once breathed.
Taking the ancient Celtic Selkie myth as inspiration, the film re-imagines the myth in a modern form, released from the lore of the "animal-wife' whose fate is at the mercy of man, to the liberated feminine embracing the sensuality and power of nature, the rhythms and tides of the ocean. Shot on location at Seacliff Beach, East Lothian.
The Earthing project is a year long collaborative exploration in response to nature and experience. Earthing August is one of a series of twelve short films. Each shot in a day during the named month, under the predominating weather conditions.
Palmer, McKinnon, Sandelin, Dermatopoulou & Shaw are a collective of filmmakers, performers and artists. We are influenced by nature, environmental activism, poetry, female surrealists, history, mythology, water, fire, play, storytelling and each other. The music for this piece was composed and performed by Kate Young, otherwise known as Kate in the Kettle, produced by Matthew Shaw.
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