"Nature sees itself through our eyes," explains philosopher David Abram in this brilliant three-part essay. The captivating and almost tactile images get interrelated sensorially as the reflections get dispersed out, providing us insight into a philosophy in which intuition, phenomenology and a critique of anthropocentrism are the pillars of thought and life. (DV)
- CPH:DOX - Dox Award Competition (2018)
Peter Mettler
Living and working between Canada and Switzerland, he melds intuitive-associative processes with drama, essay, experiment or documentation. A strong supporter of independent creativity, he has collaborated with numerous filmmakers, artists and musicians including Atom Egoyan, Fred Frith, Robert Lepage, Andreas Züst, Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Michael Ondaatje. His films and collaborations continue to hold a unique position within cinema and other disciplines, also resulting in works such as live image/sound mixing performance, photography and installations. Meditations on being, Mettlers films transform the inner worlds of their characters and audience alike, into sensorial cinematic experience.
Emma Davie
She has made a wide variety of documentaries for national and international broadcasters and most recently directed a feature documentary called I Am Breathing with a fiction filmmaker, Morag MacKinnon. This film was nominated for 3 Scottish BAFTA’s, won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Director and played in over 50 countries.
Previous work includes What Age Can you Start Being an Artist? for Channel 4 which was shortlisted for a Grierson; Gigha. Buying Our Island and Flight which was a co-production with Canada while also pursuing more experimental work herself such as 71ºN, a co-production with Norway. She currently teaches at Edinburgh College of Art where she is head of Film and TV and supervises many documentaries.