Royal Holloway is launching a new collaborative MA between the Geography
department and the English department (Place, Environment, Writing
<http://www.rhul.ac.uk/geography/prospectivestudents/postgraduatetaught/creat
ivewriting/macreativewritingplaceenvironmentwriting.aspx>),
and the cultural geography cinema Passengerfilms is running a launch night
and drinks on Thursday the 19th July, including a talk and reading by Sir
Andrew Motion before the films.
We're screening Grant Gee's 'Patience (After Sebald)' (2012), a multi-layered
film essay exploring the work and influence of German writer WG Sebald, told
via a long walk through coastal East Anglia tracking his most famous book,
The Rings of Saturn (with some interesting experimental stuff about mapping
the digressions of the text and the Mapping Sebald project). The film will be
introduced by its co-producer Gareth Evans, curator of the Artevents 'The
Re-Enchantment' national arts project on place, and involves contributions
from Tacita Dean, Robert Macfarlane, Katie Mitchell, Rick Moody, Andrew
Motion, Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair and Marina Warner. Alongside this we'll
screen theEYE's meditative short film on Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay's
Little Sparta garden, which mixes text, horticulture, myth and poetry in the
material landscape. The short will be introduced by Heather Yeung,
co-organiser of W.A.L.K. (Walking, Art, Landskip and Knowledge). James Kneale
(UCL) will also be talking about the Literary
Geographies<http://literarygeographies.wordpress.com/> bibliography and
resource site he and Sheila Hones started, which has been posted on this list
previously...
Full blurb (including more info on the MA) below - there is also a Facebook
event<http://www.facebook.com/events/442966462391501/> for those that way
inclined. Come join us for a drink!
all best
Amy
Cinema, mobility and landscape
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and writing the landscape
Thursday 19th July 2012
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Thursday 19th July 2012
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'In August 1992, when the dog days were drawing to an end, I set off to walk
the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes
hold of me whenever I have completed a long stint of work.' (Sebald, Rings of
Saturn)
To celebrate the launch of the new Place, Environment, Writing
MA<http://wordpress.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f79ce0a3fc5b40ea3afc25
da&id=7816b2f44e&e=45bb0c8a4c> run collaboratively by geographers and writers
at Royal Holloway, we're back at the Roxy Bar and Screen putting on a special
screening of Grant Gee's Patience (After Sebald) (2012), alongside launch
drinks, a short film by theEYE on Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta, and
talks from Sir Andrew Motion, James Kneale, Heather Yeung and curator Gareth
Evans.
Patience (After
Sebald)<http://wordpress.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f79ce0a3fc5b40ea3
afc25da&id=6ece1b9867&e=45bb0c8a4c> (2012, 82mins) is a stunning
multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss by the
acclaimed documentary film-maker Grant Gee ('Joy Division', 2007). It's an
exploration of the work and influence of German writer WG Sebald, told via a
long walk through coastal East Anglia tracking his most famous book, The
Rings of Saturn. Visually and aurally innovative, 'Patience' features
contributions from Tacita Dean, Robert Macfarlane, Katie Mitchell, Rick
Moody, Andrew Motion, Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair and Marina Warner. It maps
and deconstructs Sebald's digressions, illustrations and itinerary across
this half sunken coast through monochrome vistas, archival herring packing
footage and diagrams, in an experimental and inventive documentary of his
melancholy tour (see
trailer<http://wordpress.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f79ce0a3fc5b40ea3
afc25da&id=74a958cea0&e=45bb0c8a4c>). The film was commissioned as part of
The
Re-Enchantment<http://wordpress.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f79ce0a3fc
5b40ea3afc25da&id=c7e3745e79&e=45bb0c8a4c>, a three year national arts
project by Artevents exploring our various relationships to place in the
twenty first century. The film's co-producer, Gareth Evans, now curator at
Whitechapel Gallery, will introduce the film. Gareth is a writer, editor and
film programmer who curated the Artevents project and also co-edited the
limited edition book which came out of the project, Towards Re-Enchantment:
Place and Its
Meanings<http://wordpress.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=4f79ce0a3fc5b40e
a3afc25da&id=7d99b4213f&e=45bb0c8a4c>, copies of which will be available to
buy on the night.
Ian Hamilton
Finlay<http://wordpress.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f79ce0a3fc5b40ea3a
fc25da&id=ed42d32772&e=45bb0c8a4c> (2005, 26 mins) is a meditative short film
created by Illuminations as part of theEYE series, exploring Finlay's Little
Sparta<http://wordpress.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f79ce0a3fc5b40ea3a
fc25da&id=0786ecb729&e=45bb0c8a4c> in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh. Part
garden, part inscription, Little Sparta brings the space of text into the
material landscape, mixing horticulture with poetry, myth and social
metaphor. Ian Hamilton Finlay is an influential small press Scottish poet,
co-founder of the Wild Hawthorn Press, and this film marked his eightieth
birthday. Heather Yeung, co-organiser of
W.A.L.K.<http://wordpress.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f79ce0a3fc5b40ea
3afc25da&id=c0207d17b7&e=45bb0c8a4c> (Critical Dialogues in Walking, Art,
Landskip and Knowledge), will present the film. Heather has worked on both
Ian Hamilton Finlay and Alec Finlay, exploring ideas of affective mapping and
contemporary poetry, and she is currently editing a volume for Palgrave
called Cosmopoetics.
Sir Andrew Motion will be coming along to the event to talk and read from his
work. Andrew has a long-standing reputation as a writer with many collections
of poetry, fiction, and critical works on writers including Edward Thomas and
John Keats. He has worked as an editor for the Poetry Review and for Chatto
and Windus, and was Poet Laureate from 1999 until 2009. His most recent book,
'Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets' considers the interlacing of
English language and landscape, and he teaches on the new collaborative Royal
Holloway MA. James
Kneale<http://wordpress.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=4f79ce0a3fc5b40ea3
afc25da&id=7742a30ac6&e=45bb0c8a4c> (UCL) will also be talking about the new
open-access website Literary
Geographies<http://wordpress.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f79ce0a3fc5b4
0ea3afc25da&id=260c9e219d&e=45bb0c8a4c> which he co-runs with Sheila Hones.
This is a collection of thematic bibliographies and other resources,
reflecting the evolving genres of literary geography. James is a geographer
lecturer at UCL who specialises in the represented and material geographies
of science fiction and utopia narratives.
The evening is celebrating the launch of the Royal Holloway MA 'Place,
Environment, Writing', a unique collaboration between cultural geographers
and creative writers which focusses on the key question of how we relate to
the environment (from wild to urban) in the modern world through fiction,
non-fiction and poetry. The programme develops the writing skills of students
through an understanding of creative place-based writing as well as a
grounding in theoretical explorations of environment, place and landscape,
through workshops and supervisions led by the writers Jo Shapcott, Sir Andrew
Motion, and Tim Cresswell (editor of Cultural Geographies and author of
Place: A Short Introduction).
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