Yorkshire Dirt
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"Yorkshire Dirt" is a moving image work printed on soil collected from the North Yorkshire moorland, using a low-tech process the artist innovated. The artist travelled into the moorland and dug the earth from a disused mining site, where the soil is a vibrant orange/red due to the presence of iron. Each frame was printed on the soil in an entirely unique process - around 1,700 in total. The work is a challenge to the false pastoralism of British rural life - of cows happily chewing on grass, farmers with a thumb of wheat jammed in their jaw, and peaceful green fields broken only by the sounds of a noble tractor steering its fateful course. In an era of crisis, "Yorkshire Dirt" brings attention to the ecological violence that strings the landscape together; be it the over-grazing of land, the pesticides devastating insect life, sheep-dip poisoning workers, plastics polluting the soils, and more.
Screenings
ASTOR Film Lounge MyZeil
Cast and crew
About the director(s):
Edd Carr:
Edd Carr is an artist from North Yorkshire, UK. Adapting photographic processes into moving image - his work depicts our relationship to ecological crisis and the wider nonhuman world. Edd is also one of the leaders of the Sustainable Darkroom, a non-profit organisation
dedicated to the research, development, and advocacy of eco-friendly alternatives to analogue and digital photography.
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