This workshop offers an easy and experimental introduction for anyone interested in making moving-images responding to the natural world. The workshop provides an overview to non-fiction filmmaking (AKA creative documentaries), enthusing participants with the techniques to play with creative approaches towards documentation in their own lives. Through exploration of the moving-image, participants will learn how to move with their camera (phone cameras are completely fine for this) and how these images can come together into a short film. Sound is explored alongside the moving-image, with equipment provided for participants to play with sound recording and think about the role of sound in Ecological Filmmaking. The workshop begins with a short participatory lecture followed by individual time to play and practice the explored techniques, finally coming together to share work and reflect on the experience. Introduction to Ecological Filmmaking is for anyone interested in the more-than-human world and exploring how mediation through a camera can navigate and shape their place within it.

About your tutor:

Rosa Prosser is an artist filmmaker from the Lake District UK. Having graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2021 with a BA in the History and Philosophy of Science, she completed an MFA in Creative Documentary by Practice within UCL’s Public Anthropology Department, finishing in June 2024. Her series of short films Careers to Solve the Climate Crisis (2021) were shown at COP26 in November 2021. Her experimental short film WHEN THE CROWS WALK HOME (2023) has been shown internationally in Greece, Switzerland, China, Hong Kong and Indonesia. She has made two films funded by Fellfoot Forward (a National Lottery supported foundation in Cumbria) View From the River (2024) and Touching the Helm (2024) which have been shown in the Alhambra Cinema, Penrith and several local community spaces across Cumbria. Her short film The Language of Wind (2023) premiered at Open City Documentary Film Festival in April 2024. She is currently working on her first feature.