green unpleasant land creative responses to rural england's colonial connections

green unpleasant land creative responses to rural england

Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. 'Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew.

Hostile opened with one of my favourite pieces of pandemic writing, a quote from the inimitable Arundhati Roy:

We'll also include links to grassroots organisations and international campaigns tied to the subject matter of each film: a toolkit for watching, reading, thinking and acting.Ĭheck out the previous posts for the films ' Delikado ' and 'Foragers'.įor this instalment, Mairi has watched 'Hostile' (2021), directed by Sonita Gale: Each list is curated by one of our booksellers who, having watched the film, suggests pathways for further exploration through a list of books. Under the banner of #WatchReadThinkAct we'll be releasing a reading list for each programmed film, every week until the start of the Edinburgh festival (16 - 18th Sep). This year, our pals over at the festival have created an absolutely stunning, carefully curated program of films to move hearts, change minds and provoke action, all based on the meaning of the earth beneath our feet: 'land as material, as power, and as terrain for violence and resistance'. We're over the moon to be bringing back last year's collaboration with Take One Action, the UK’s leading global change film festival.

Green unpleasant land creative responses to rural england's colonial connections