IMMATERIAL TERRAIN AND OTHER FILMS

Immaterial Terrain is a film made by Emily Richardson along a seven-mile stretch of the UK coast, from Sizewell nuclear power station to the mythic drowned city of Dunwich.

Camera in hand, over the duration of a year, Richardson repeatedly walked this coastline. These walks structure a film that documents a singular and fragile landscape at an uncertain moment.

Immaterial Terrain engages with ideas about energy, transformation, erosion, loss, erasure, memory, and forgetting. Other films shown at this special screening include Cobra Mist, filmed in Orford Ness, and Arboreal, filmed at an ancient oak forest in Suffolk. A conversation with Emily’s long-time collaborator Jonathan P. Watts will round-off the evening.

This event is held in memory of Pete Wilkinson, founder of UK Greenpeace and life-long environmental activist.

About the Artist

Emily Richardson is a filmmaker and researcher examining the trace of human presence on particular landscapes and environments on the cusp of change.

Richardson’s films document sites of power and corporate interest at particular moments in time uncovering layers of narrative embedded in these contested landscapes, whether East London prior to the Olympics, abandoned military architecture of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment of Orford Ness, the oil industry on the Scottish coastline, the contentious expansion of Sizewell nuclear power station, or the exploitation of the Far North.

Immaterial Terrain is an Arts Council England funded project made in collaboration with Jonathan P. Watts, Daniel Timms aka LOOM, Chris Watson, and contributors from the Sizewell and Leiston area of Suffolk.