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Out of the Peat

Out of the Peat
Out of the Peat

Synopsis

Flesh as film, and film as flesh... An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to excavate the peatland. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat - and into the past - they unearth much more than mere relics. The peat holds forgotten histories, uneasy truths, and vast stores of climate-change-accelerating carbon. Reflecting the attempt to document and preserve this landscape via the moving image, the film becomes both a lament and a call to action for local peat-bog restoration and protection. A queer eco-horror which reflects on what it means to bury, to archive, to capture, to unearth. Shot in collaboration with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, the film becomes both a lament and call to action for local peat-bog conservation.

Details

Year
2024
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
12 min 00 sec
Format
16mm
Director
Tabitha Carless-Frost, Theo Rollason
Producer
Tate Turnbull
Executive Producer
Nicole Davis
Editor
Anthony Ing
Screenwriter
Tabitha Carless-Frost
Director of Photography
Morgan K. Spencer
Composer
Richard Skelton
Principal cast
Roo Gehring

Genre

Experimental LGBTQIA+ Horror Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Acetate Pictures Ltd

Tate Turnbull

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