ZONE ROUGE RED ZONE

Zone Rouge / Red Zone (Back Forest Reflections)

For the first of a series of posts about my latest film-poem project, I am sharing a short reflection by the commissioner of the work, Dr. Esther Breithoff (Birkbeck, University Of London). Esther is the Principal Investigator on the research project, Ecologies of Violence.

Still from 'Zone Rouge'

Ecologies of Violence uses archaeological, historical and ethnographic research as well as vitalist/‘more-than-human’ frameworks to critically investigate how landscapes remember past violence against both culture and nature, and how these social, material and biological scars persist in...

Film_Poem Images On Rocks

Film-Poem: Imagens Em Rochas / Images On Rocks

 

Between 2021 and 2024 I undertook an ecological artist residency in the Côa Valley, in eastern Portugal - a collaboration with archaeologist/ethnographer Bárbara Carvalho and also the musician Jesse D. Vernon. Much of our creative fieldwork and community involvement was carried out in the zone of the valley close to the Faia Brava nature reserve, which is the location of the Lapas Cabreiras site, known for its impressive collection of prehistoric ‘Schematic’ painted rock-art motifs.