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Film Seeds:Pollinate!

The 9 short films in Film Seeds:Pollinate! curated by Alchemy Film & Arts New programmers and Moving Images' Kerry Jones are intended to plant film seeds to grow positive action and ideas. From recycled art to the beauty of weeds, a plant’s colonial journey to the joy of outdoor play, land ownership to regenerative economics, animated extinct animals and a community call to action, Film Seeds: Pollinate! voice's issues that demand to be heard.

Trapped by Plastic

Anny Tubbs’ documentary Trapped by Plastic shares behind-the-scenes insights into photographer Mandy Barker’s practice which focuses on communicating the extensive impact of marine plastic pollution.

See Weeds.

In See Weeds, Dawn George focusses on a trio of wild plants: Dandelion, Coltsfoot and Golden Rod. eco, hand processed 35mm produces a nostalgic and poignant mood, celebrating the resilience of these often maligned plants seeding and multiplying.

Rewild your World.

Hand-drawn animation opens up the potential impact that wildflowers can make in domestic spaces in Ben Sinclair’s hopeful Rewild Your World.

We Know a Better Word than Happy.

Helen McCrorie’s We Know A Better Word Than Happy shows us a child’s-eye view of the Children’s Wood, a community-led urban green space in Glasgow, capturing the joy, possibilities and importance of outdoor play.

1850.

In Natasha Jensen’s 1850, a plant narrates its own colonial migration story from Canada to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh – disrupting and enriching the scientific information provided by the plant’s specimen label.

The Wild Enclosed.

A softly sung folk ballad interweaves with images of ancient oaks and an abandoned building in Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan’s The Wild Enclosed, questioning the history of social inequality and the right of ownership.

Create to Regenerate.

Doughnut Economics’ Create to Regenerate visualises the negative effects of degenerative industrial processes, and the possibilities of regenerative circular economies.

Climate Change.

Filmmaking duo Sois de Traca’s animation Climate Change poses the question: What if each of us were instantly accountable for our actions when they affect climate change?

Are We Listening?

Alastair Cook's Are We Listening, is a layered nature film poem written by the people of Scotland and arranged by Makar Kathleen Jamie that asks "Today is the day to say - now, Today is the day to say - how?"

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