Out of the Peat
Isabel MacCarthy
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Isabel MacCarthy
Synopsis
Flesh as film, and film as flesh... An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to excavate the peatland. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat — and into the past — they unearth much more than mere relics. The peat holds forgotten histories, uneasy truths, and vast stores of climate-change-accelerating carbon. Reflecting the attempt to document and preserve this landscape via the moving image, the film becomes both a lament and a call to action for local peat-bog restoration and protection. A queer eco-horror which reflects on what it means to bury, to archive, to capture, to unearth. Shot in collaboration with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, the film becomes both a lament and call to action for local peat-bog conservation.
Details
- Year
- 2024
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running Time
- 12 min 00 sec
- Format
- 16mm
- Director
- Tabitha Carless-Frost, Theo Rollason
- Producer
- Tate Turnbull
- Executive Producer
- Nicole Davis
- Editor
- Anthony Ing
- Screenwriter
- Tabitha Carless-Frost
- Director of Photography
- Morgan K. Spencer
- Music
- Richard Skelton
- Principal Cast
- Roo Gehring
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 3rd February 2025
