III. Otherground
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the concept of ‘nature’ (as traditionally defined) contains ‘the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations.’ This strand poses a visual challenge to such a construct, exploring how fashion and nature intertwine within imaginative worlds conjured by the moving image in its varying materialities. Metamorphoses, fantasy, camouflage, and digital shapeshifting dissolve perceived boundaries between human bodies and ecological systems.
Friday 5 September, 18:00 | Watershed BristolFollowing Daisies, Fruit of Paradise marks another acclaimed collaboration between director Věra Chytilová, costume designer Ester Krumbachová, and cinematographer Jaroslav Kučera. As highly stylised as its predecessor, the film reimagines the biblical Fall of Man as an allegory for Czechoslovakia’s loss of freedom after the Soviet invasion in 1968.
Inverness, Eden Court | Glasgow Film TheatreJodie Mack's The Grand Bizarre is a collage fashioned from some 85,000 meticulously crafted frames captured across six continents. In them, Mack unfolds a unique cosmology centred on textiles as entities that are alert to the ceaseless motion of their surroundings.
Saturday 4 October, 18:00 | Glasgow Film TheatreThis programme of digital shorts explores nonhuman or hybrid states – whether through flora and fauna, mythic creatures or surreal transformations – to frame and examine identity, ecology, society, and the boundaries between self and other.
Saturday 25 October, 19:00 | Plymouth Arts CinemaA fantastical slant on the weight of wearing fur, examining the transformative effects of what we wear, and how our proximity to animality can liberate us from the restrictions of conventional fashions.