2010 /  This film responds to the act of story telling which
was once deeply imbedded as a means to understand our locality,
when the land itself became a place to store knowledge or wisdom
of ways to live upon it. Now - visual language, is by far our
most powerful sense, we are able to perceive types of imagery
in a split second, far faster than in earlier generations,
and yet the spoken voice has an interesting cognitive effect
on the brain, often forcing us to retrace our thinking process in order
to understand and piece together complex and nuanced information.

For this work three writers were invited to make narratives around three
different locations: at the Waters of Minnoch, Loch Dee and Glen Trool, these
were recorded as a spoken voice and accompany footage shot in these areas.
Commissioned by Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association.


The three films are individually titled:
Minnoch with words by Robin Lloyd-Jones, duration 9 minutes,19 secs
Dee with words by John Burnside, duration 12 minutes, 23 secs
Trool with words by Jay Griffiths, duration 8 mins, 29 secs