Content Type: Stories
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Strange Natures: Scarification
A short story by Michael Reeks, responding to the theme of Strange Natures.
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Strange Natures: Compost
A short series of drawings by Marion Bessol in response to the theme of ‘Strange Natures’.
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Strange Natures: Podcast – Folk horror and English commons
Andy Thatcher discusses how he uses film to appreciate English commons, and the uses of folk horror, the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’ in exploring contested histories.
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Strange Natures: Podcast – Forgotten places and the field of memory
A podcast episode with researcher Cansu Sönmez about the impacts of large infrastructure projects and how people respond to them.
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Strange Natures: Common Place
Common Place, a film by Andy Thatcher, is a hauntological exploration of access and climate crisis at a common in Devon. Common Place was filmed as part of a series of explorations around the Pebblebed Heaths National Nature Reserve in East Devon. Andy writes: I spent the month around the solstice 2023 filming in the…
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Strange Natures: Clouties – a ghost story
Short film by Andy Thatcher set in Grovely Wood, a registered common and former Norman hunting forest in southern England.
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Podcast: Mining and Resistance in Covas do Barroso
Future Natures podcast episode about resistance to lithium mining in Portugal.
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More than a pub: the story of The Bevy
How a pub in Brighton became a centre of social life, learning and mutual support for a community.
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Photo story: Views of Mpox in Nigeria
Based on research in Nigeria, this story explores how mpox is felt and understood by different people – including those with symptoms, the wider community and healthcare workers.
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Comic: Mpox in Nigeria – lessons from diverse experiences
Comic that explores the varied experience of mpox in Nigeria, with suggested lessons for healthcare elsewhere in the world.