The Word for Home is Forest was a year-long intergenerational project working with Year 8 to 9 students from Pyrland School in Taunton to explore digital skills and local ecologies. We explored the cultural heritage of the Quantock Hills including Romantic poetry, folk music, lore and historical narratives alongside its ecology, geology and history. We engaged with these ancestries in light of the socio-ecological issues that the young people face in the current moment and in the future - especially deforestation and climate change.
The resulting digital film has been inclusively created at every stage - script, character, costume, theme, music, acting, videography and sound.
The Word for Home is Forest is a commission by Quantocks Landscape Partnership Scheme as part of their project 'In the Footsteps of the Romantic Poets'. It is showing at Hestercombe Gallery until February 2025.
