GHOST STRATA

Part-funded by EYE Film Museum

46 MIN 16MM COLOUR/B+W 4:3

2019

‘Ghost Strata’ refers to the missing elements from within the rock strata that despite their absence offer hints of what was once there. The film is divided into the months of the year in which the footage was captured. Filmed in various places over the globe, charting various personal movements of the filmmaker, Ghost Strata explores the differing scales of impact that humanity’s presence has on the earth in the past, present and into the future. Found sound and text create a meditation on time, memory, leftovers and extinction. 

 “I would advise a good deal of um, of clear observation as you can of what the environment seems to be, and what you are, realising first that these things are not separate. But observe…Observe as much as you can what is going on here. And then…let your mind…leap in imaginative ways, in terms of what the future may hold, and so on. And try to um… introduce then those changes that appear to be necessary in order that the future, instead of being unendurable, will be enjoyable.” - John Cage