Content Type: Stories
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Strange Natures: Volatile ecologies and shifting islands
Photo story by Sampurna Das about the shifting river islands of eastern India.
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Strange Natures: Zine – ‘Strange Realism’
A zine by Francis Gene-Rowe about poetry, the self, time, stories and nature.
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Strange Natures: The haunted floodplains of San Felipe
A series of artworks by Jorge Losoya visualise how a community is haunted by past and future floods.
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Weird seas of the climate crisis – birds as eerie revelation
Closely observing strange patterns in bird behaviour, Andrew Whitehouse finds hints of the unsettled climate.
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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…
