FILM DOUBLE BILL - THE DREAMING BOG & CURSE o'the MYRE - 20th February 7pm

****Special In-person Guests - Robert Aitken & Michael G Clark ****who will conduct a Q&A

THE DREAMING BOG : Directed by Robert Aitken - 40 mins is an ecopoetic film on Climate Change told through the history and mythology of the

Peatbogs of Northern Scotland and the Mires of Finland - an exploration of the punishment and preservation

by human-kind on these vulnerable landscapes.

The film is based on the opening act of an epic new poem by Caithness Makar, George Gunn, 'SIX

THOUSAND YEARS OF SUNLIGHT’, voiced and woven into a dreamscape narrative; a sensory journey; an

imagining - echoing memory, language, history and our relationship with mother nature’s silent nurturer: The

Carbon rich Peatbog.

The Peatbog { Boglach in Gaelic } or Mire { Suo in Finnish } is not only a depository of Carbon it is a repository

of human collective history and of memory; ecosystems and evolution -

CURSE o’the MYRE: The Omen of Flodden co-Prouducer Michael G Clark - 32 mins - Animation

"Her loss spurred a grief that defied time".

For centuries the Spirit Guard of Lady Margaret Sinclair is bound to the crumbling ruins of her Highland castle, endlessly reliving the loss of her beloved William, one of hundreds of Caithness Clansmen killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. Her grief, absorbed into the peatbogs of the far north, warns of the harm humans inflict on each other and the land itself..

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