Filming the landscape

The short film is a collection of still and moving images documenting the landscape at the Walton Backwaters throughout a tide cycle. Observing in detail the effects of the tide on the landscape. The images on the film are no longer fragments of the place, captured in time, but details that attract attention, deconstructing the landscape. With these images we grow aware not of the vastness and complexity of the space, but of the existence of micro spaces: water, with a material density, rendered in changing colours, the transportation of sediments and reeds blowing in the wind, considered samples of landscape. These microcosms highlight the frailty of the landscape, exploring issues of space and time, the material and the symbolic. This deconstruction of a landscape symbolises the ongoing tension between man and nature within the landscape.