This film workshop for older adults by Dear Future films draws inspiration from the wood wide web of mycelium focussing on ideas sparked by ‘The Oldest Tree in the Woods, often named ‘The Mother Tree’.
These older, more seasoned ‘hub’ trees have a deeper web of connections, giving fungi, seedlings and other plants better resilience within their woodland community.
We invite you to respond to these ideas with your own moment of creative play, using filmmaking to explore this intriguing, sensory and wondrous part of nature.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
You will join us at The Compound in West St Leonards, and build an individual mini set, or diorama in a shoe box using props and lights.
You will use your smartphones (no previous skills necessary) as a creative tool to make short experimental film-clips.
Ideas about the deeper connections and communications between trees, fungi and plants that thread beneath our feet, will be brought to life with props we will provide, including Rachel’s wonderful hand-crafted silver and copper mushrooms. We will also use collections of threads and natural found items brought in from the local woodlands.
Please also bring your own objects or found items to film, thinking about ‘The Oldest Tree in the Woods’. Photos, words, or objects are all fabulous.
This workshop is for older adults (55+)
TICKETS £15, or £10 low income
Dear Future Films
Dear Future is an artist led company formed by Rebecca Marshall + Rachel Pearson. Rebecca is a filmmaker who films as a daily practice of looking more slowly at the world as a type of care. She is a Doctor of Philosophy through filmmaking. Rachel works as a practising silversmith using extraordinary found objects such as bones, metal and stones from river and sea shorelines. She is a registered Mudlarker with a fascination for all things lost and found and their peculiar stories.
Rachel and Rebecca offer workshops to make and gather collections of film material. Participants need no previous filmmaking skills. Using smartphones, they make new film and audio material in everyday environments with personal and found objects, as well as drawing from photographs, drawings, writing and poetry to explore inner and outer worlds.