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

Skye Bridge Studios 123

An ecopoetic film on Climate Change  + an  animation that brings Scotland’s haunted past vividly to life by filmaker Robert Aitken.

Skye Bridge Studios

****Special In-person Guests - Robert Aitken &amp; Michael G Clark ****who will conduct a Q&amp;ATHE DREAMING BOG : Directed by Robert Aitken - 40 mins is an ecopoetic film on Climate Change told through the history and mythology of thePeatbogs of Northern Scotland and the Mires of Finland - an exploration of the punishment and preservationby human-kind on these vulnerable landscapes.The film is based on the opening act of an epic new poem by Caithness Makar, George Gunn, 'SIXTHOUSAND YEARS OF SUNLIGHT’, voiced and woven into a dreamscape narrative; a sensory journey; animagining - echoing memory, language, history and our relationship with mother nature’s silent nurturer: TheCarbon rich Peatbog.The Peatbog { Boglach in Gaelic } or Mire { Suo in Finnish } is not only a depository of Carbon it is a repositoryof 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.. © Robert Aitken Filmproduction 2022

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