Earth Day: Sharna Pax Film Screening
Film collective Sharna Pax programme an online screening of three short films on the occasion of Earth Day.
Archived Event
| Dates | available until Sun 25 Apr |
| Times | Thu 22 Apr, 18.30 |
| Space | Online Film Screening |
| Price | Free |
Film collective Sharna Pax (Studios resident Maeve Brennan, Tinne Zenner and Therese Henningsen) present Word for Forest (2018) by Pia Rönicke, Kevin Jerome Everson's Cardinal (2019), and Die Donau Rauf (1969) by Peter Nestler and Zsóka Nestler for Somerset House's Earth Day programme; each film attentively observing a different environment - forest, sky, and river.
“Finden, Zeigen, Halten (finding, showing, holding): like an archaeologist patiently and meticulously digging into the soil of material life, uncovering and preserving traces of histories that continue to haunt the present”
Hartmut Bitomsky on Peter Nestler
Word for Forest registers the movement of a seed from the Botanical Gardens in Copenhagen back to its original home in the Mexican Oaxaca mountains; Cardinal observes birdwatchers looking for the state bird of Ohio and Die Donau Rauf traces the layered histories of the Danube. Engaging with the inhabitants of these places - people, plants, birds and boats - the films offer subtle and nuanced encounters with complex histories marked by colonialism.
Sharna Pax's online film programme marks the 51st year of Earth Day, an annual global event on 22 April to champion transformative environmental awareness and action, as part of Somerset House's year-round commitment to environmental sustainability.