Films
I have been adding another string to my bow as a wildlife film maker and as such I have provided links to the two short films I made in 2009. I had the pleasure of meeting with David Attenborough at this time.
In my filmmaking, I cross boundaries between fiction and documentary. This involves a process of documenting what's there, whilst experimenting with concepts, themes and new ways to look at our environments.
As a photographer I'm concerned with a pleasing photographic style, composition and use of light and as a filmmaker, finding ways to make the links between human and wildlife environments without the need to preach. I feel that a lot of problems arise as we continue to look at wildlife as something 'over there' and to be revered rather than a part of the world we all inhabit.
Running to Stand Still
Chasing Pavements
A second film is unavailable for viewing at this time at this time but will be posted here in due course. The 12 minute film follows a similar theme in that it looks at how we submerge ourselves in the city and our day to day lives. We stop noticing what's around us, using up resources and creating environmental problems beyond the limits of our local environments. It contrasts this to Limestone Pavement, how it thrives like a city but only within its limited resources. Filmed on location in Lancashire, North Yorkshire and Manchester City Centre. I presented a copy to Chris Packham, BBC Natural History presenter who commented:
“ You must have worked very hard to make it so beautiful, you should be very proud of it, few students come close to it in terms of quality or imagination and certainly not in the natural history genre”.
In my filmmaking, I cross boundaries between fiction and documentary. This involves a process of documenting what's there, whilst experimenting with concepts, themes and new ways to look at our environments.
As a photographer I'm concerned with a pleasing photographic style, composition and use of light and as a filmmaker, finding ways to make the links between human and wildlife environments without the need to preach. I feel that a lot of problems arise as we continue to look at wildlife as something 'over there' and to be revered rather than a part of the world we all inhabit.
Running to Stand Still
Running to Stand Still from Rachel Wegh on Vimeo.
Putting a spin on the tradition of wildlife documentary this film combines wildlife with fiction and the immediacy of Haiku poetry to take us on a journey along the Sefton coast. Moving us metaphorically from the static views we hold to the views we are at liberty to see if we can but change our perspectives.The 8 minute film follows a running man along the Sefton Coast from Crosby in Liverpool, through Ainsdale Sands and Formby to Southport with Blackpool Tower visible across the water. He stands as a metaphor for how we can choose to stand still and watch manmade technology change and move around us or we can take notice of our environments and the nature that forms a part of it.Chasing Pavements
A second film is unavailable for viewing at this time at this time but will be posted here in due course. The 12 minute film follows a similar theme in that it looks at how we submerge ourselves in the city and our day to day lives. We stop noticing what's around us, using up resources and creating environmental problems beyond the limits of our local environments. It contrasts this to Limestone Pavement, how it thrives like a city but only within its limited resources. Filmed on location in Lancashire, North Yorkshire and Manchester City Centre. I presented a copy to Chris Packham, BBC Natural History presenter who commented:
“ You must have worked very hard to make it so beautiful, you should be very proud of it, few students come close to it in terms of quality or imagination and certainly not in the natural history genre”.
