Friday 27th October 2023, the World Day of Audio-Visual Heritage marked the day that we and the Yorkshire and North East Film Archives collaboratively premiered our new short film Nature Matters.
The film is a love letter to nature and a call to action. It is a timely short film which speaks across generations, using over a century of archive footage to remind us of our innate relationship with the natural world.
The 16-minute film contains clips from 139 pieces of content in the YFA and NEFA collections, which had to be carefully curated, digitised and edited to form the powerful narrative that was finally displayed on the big screen.
The premiere screening was followed by a Q&A with producers from the YFA/NEFA team and York St John’s Cinema and Social Justice Project and York Business School. The panel were able to answer questions about how the project came about, how the film was produced from archive footage, and how the film will be used in the future. One particular point that was noted was the creative use of commissioned poetry work by Ms Moem, in order to bookend the film in the editing process. We were delighted that Ms Moem was able to attend the premiere too.
The film is currently being entered into festivals and screened at select events in various venues across Yorkshire and the North East. In the coming months, the film will be released publicly for all to see via our online channels, so watch this space!
“it made me consider how film and other media for leisure can be used to protest the realities of climate change and how people can help the environment.”
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