VII. THE ANIMAL GAZE Godfrey Reggio, Visitors (2013), featuring Triska. Reproduced with the kind permission of the director. https://vimeo.com/786301638 Andrew Kötting, Klipperty-Klöpp (1984). Courtesy of the artist.  I felt on safer ground when I turned to artists who practiced what Deleuze and Guattari termed “becoming-animal”, that is, submitting to creaturely possession and shape-shifting into beasts,…

VI. NARRATIVE INSCRIPTIONS https://vimeo.com/790753083 Pam Skelton, Ponar (1995), featuring Itzak Dogan, video. With the kind permission of the artist. https://vimeo.com/790792007 Catherine Elwes, Pam’s War (2008), video. Courtesy of the artist. Closer to home, my own Pam’s War (2008) overlays a series of coastal views with my mother’s voice talking about her experiences during WW2, casually reducing her work at…

V. PERFORMING THE LANDSCAPE https://vimeo.com/791154943 Sarah Dobai, Nettlecombe, (2008). Courtesy of the artist.  Prospect Cottage and Derek Jarman’s garden, Dungeness in 2006. Photo: Catherine Elwes. https://vimeo.com/792910752  [EXTRACT] Derek Jarman, The Garden (1990). Courtesy of James Mackay and Basilisk Communication Limited. While parks and gardens are often fashioned to reflect power and property, I found many other artists…

IV. THE VULNERABLE BODY Zacharias Kunuk, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (2001). Courtesy of Isuma Distribution International. Image © 2001 Isuma Distribution International. Where Lucier and Gatten emphasised the material encounter of the moving image with atmospheric conditions, resulting in burnt vidicon tubes and scratched, stained and drowned reels of celluloid, other artists left the image…

III. THE SEMIOTICS OF PROCESS My concern that landscape aesthetics derived from mainstream culture could compromise the politics of artists’ landscape films led me to concentrate less on their overt content and more on the circumstances of their making. I began to think about the artists and what their work revealed not only about the…

II. THE MEDIUM AND THE MESSAGE Steven Ball and John Conomos, Deep Water Web (2016). Courtesy of the artists. R.V. Ramani, My Camera and Tsunami (2011). Courtesy of the artist. [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NTkW8UnLHw] I came across other artists who quite deliberately adopted decorative, even sublime imagery to critique not only the impact of climate change but also the…