Stavenger Norway Can the governance of solar energy transitions ensure that they advance social and environmental equity and justice? A document of the work of energy social scientists during a project workshop on accountable solar energy transitions, which convened two dozen researchers from four continents to discuss the land-energy-agriculture nexus, agrivoltaics, and the political economy of solar energy.

A stop-motion animation about the transformation of the production and commodification of Orientalism from 19th century paintings to tourism photography. The 19th century Art world presented a romanticized and exoticized view of North Africa, creating a marketable fantasy for Western audiences. This narrative laid the groundwork for modern tourism photography, which perpetuates similar themes through the lens of social media. By comparing the two mediums, the film examines how tourism photography continues to commodify and aestheticize North African cultures, reducing them to consumable images for global audiences. The shift to social media amplifies this effect, rapidly disseminating these images and reinforcing stereotypical portrayals. The film seeks to highlight the persistent and evolving nature of Orientalism, revealing how modern technology and tourism sustain and transform colonial narratives into contemporary forms of cultural and economic exploitation.

A film made during 2023 commissioned by Theatre Absolute for their series Project:Public. Rooted in a set of provocations exploring the internal and external in regards to the city and the artistic self. The film uses lens-based and conversational tools for thinking through ideas, paying attention to the human instinct to be in the landscape, seeing life unfold and witnessing with authenticity and openness the city’s surprises, discomforts, and joys. A pair of walking podcasts act as the central journeys, carried out between myself and artistic directors Julia Negus and Chris O’Connell, eventually accumulating in a super 8 film. The film responds to a changing political and economic climate within the urban sphere - the appetite for regeneration and the unknowns which fall onto the cultural sector because of it.

Nepali with English subtitles UK (Northumbria) Nepal The film provides a situated account of the realities of living alongside landslides in Nepal's Middle Hills. In doing so, it provides an alternative perspective to the hazard and risk maps conventionally produced to inform decision making in rural Nepal.

Spanish with English Subtitles UK (Exeter) Peru Mientras todo iba pasando (While it was all happening) is a short documentary film that follows a young Peruvian woman as she recounts her experiences of supporting friends to access abortions. In Peru, abortion is illegal in almost every single circumstance and so this film seeks to explore the experiences of navigating clandestinity and trying to create safety and care in a context that actively criminalizes abortion. The film explores the ethics of what can and cannot be said and purposefully avoids telling a simple story of abortion access. The film set out to explore geographies of abortion care in a context than criminalizes it. This involved documenting the stories of people who have accompanied abortions, showcasing how their traditionally overlooked role as ‘acompañantes’ [accompaniers] is pivotal in providing care and reducing damage for people who undergo abortion procedures. By following these stories, the film also explores clandestinity as a space that simultaneously endangers people who seek abortions and allows for the emergence of infrastructures of care. As the project progressed, the team grappled with the ethical implications of making these hidden experiences public through the documentary. This led to an exploration of the ethics of making a documentary about activities on the fringes of legality and the accompanying silenced stories. The project had three aims: 1.    To document the stories of people who have accompanied abortions in the context of criminalization and stigma in Peru 2.    To film these stories and produce a documentary film 3.    To share the documentary as a resource to raise awareness of abortion care in Peru, and to contribute to the elimination of stigma

Dundee, Scotland This film explores the importance of public parks for providing an opportunity to connect with diverse city spaces, provide openness in built environments, support biodiversity and to improve wellbeing. The film explores the case study of Baxter Park in the city centre of Dundee, Scotland. This setting is the focus of an ongoing study exploring creative approaches towards green spaces and sense of place. Using qualitative methods, the film explores the history of the park's development and the importance of archives, oral histories and cultural geographies for understanding our connections to place. Our film set out to explore perceptions of green spaces and public parks, connections to place and changing uses of Baxter Park in Dundee, Scotland. The film also set out to provide an introduction to our ongoing collaborative research project, The Big Back Garden, which examines wellbeing, nature in the city, and creativity. Key questions were: -How do public parks provide opportunities and challenges for city spaces and residents? -How can we explore the use of creative mixed methods for sharing, and reflecting on, park spaces? -In what ways do past and present cultural geographies of Baxter Park, reflect changing local and international connections?

Australia Timor-Leste Tetun/Makasae with English subtitles In Timor-Leste’s Matebian mountain range, farmers participating in the Baguia region’s Ho Musan Ida carbon forestry program grow trees to sell carbon credits to the international market. This reforestation initiative is locally founded and controlled. It is built upon lisan, the deep social relationships people have with each other, their environment and their ancestors.

In Huelva, Spain, half of all agricultural workers who pick berries are migrants from Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America

Italy Italian English Subtitles This film delves into the diverse spaces of the town of Ispra and its surroundings, uncovering private and collective memories through experimental cartography and multimedia pieces. Through audio and images, it shows the unique stories and sounds embedded within the urban landscape, fostering reflection and dialogue. By the storytelling methodology offers a transversal proposal that highlights the complexity nature of urban environments. Presents Ispra as a dynamic space intertwined with history, innovation, and diverse narratives, inviting viewers to engage with its layered temporalities and collective memories.

UK Norway, Austria, Chile A ‘spectral index’ is a mathematical image calculation that renders its subject in false colour. In geological prospecting it is used to identify mineral deposits: a technique of mapping terrain for monetary gain. Combining satellite timelapses with infrared drone footage of lithium prospecting sites, and microscope imagery of damaged camera parts, the film considers how this spectral gaze frames our relationship with landscape, both presuming ownership and assuming its future purpose. Mapping has always been a means of circumscribing property, but in the technics of spectral prospecting, the calculation of chromatic values connects directly with a calculation of financial value. The film was developed following a yearlong collaboration with the Horizon EU research project GREENPEG, who were prospecting for lithium-bearing pegmatites within Europe. During this period, I travelled with the consortium's geophysicists to Norway, Ireland and Austria documenting their work and discussing the techniques they used. In my own studio meanwhile I produced satellite timelapses of the landscapes surrounding copper and lithium mines in Northern Chile, and shot microscope footage of damaged camera sensors. While the time spent with GREENPEG generated a lot of footage, very little of it is used in the final film. During the research process it became apparent to me that I was both highly critical of many of the assumptions that are baked into energy transition, and that my interest was in the planetary scale of the problem. Making a documentary style film about a single scientific project would have failed to address this scale, and unjustly targeted the critique at scientists whose motivations are fair. Spectral Index therefore focuses on the systemic aspects of the imaging techniques used, and the profitability calculation that they enable.