Join us on a journey as we explore the relationship between humans and the natural world with this season of films curated by filmmaker and researcher Dr Adam Laity.

The title of the season comes from a term coined by eco-philosopher David Abram, who recognised a gulf between humankind and the rest of nature: how we are just one small species among many, and all forms of life have value.

Through interconnected mycelial networks below the soil (Fungi: Web of Life), the damaged future world of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, Terrence Malick’s rumination on war, humanity and nature (The Thin Red Line) and more, the films in the season offer us a unique chance to dive deeper into the relationship we have to nature and the ‘more-than-human’ world around us.

About Adam Laity

Adam Laity is a filmmaker, cinematographer and researcher with a PhD in cinematographic approaches towards eco-sublime landscapes. The majority of his research is delivered in documentary and essay films, including the award-winning A Short Film About Ice, about his landscape studies of the Arctic.

Adam sees this season as a great opportunity to draw lines between his favourite films, artists and thinkers. He says:

“For me it’s an urgent priority that we embrace storytelling and other aspects of culture that celebrate connection and empathy between individuals and ‘otherness’. More-than-human stories give us the chance of developing our way out of dangerous binaries and siloed ways of thinking – we must think bigger than ourselves and see us not as separate to or distanced from nature but intertwined and connected in the most profound – and often joyful – ways.”

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