Flourish Peterborough and Gateway Film Festival are pleased to announce the screening of Super Nature

Flourish Peterborough and Gateway Film Festival are pleased to announce the screening of Super Nature.

This screening is free but booking is essential.

SUPER NATURE celebrates our universal connection to nature, with an intimate gaze, creating a visceral, poetic, personal meditation on the natural world. Ed Sayers’ award-winning debut feature saw him collaborating with 40 people on 80 different antique Super 8 cameras across land, in the air, and underwater. They would all decide together the stories of nature close to them and their hearts that they would tell, all with as little travel as possible.

The result is a fresh perspective on the most pressing subject of our times.

Filmed exclusively on the original home movie format, Super 8, Super Nature proposes a new way of seeing. A celebration of all we have and reflecting on all we have to lose, audiences are invited on a journey across 25 different countries, with people embracing both abundance and loss, to feel a sense of togetherness with our fellow dwellers on earth, human and non-human.

A global co-creation project, Super Nature saw Sayers collaborating with 40 people on 80 different antique Super 8 cameras, across land, in the air, and underwater. They would all decide together the stories of nature close to them and their hearts, that they would tell, all with little travel as possible. Super Nature celebrates our universal connection to nature, with an intimate gaze, creating a visceral, poetic, personal meditation on the natural world.

Captured by a combination of professional filmmakers and local enthusiasts alike, including contributions from world renowned flood and fire photographers Gideon Mendel; National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale; big wave surfer and UNESCO Champion for the Ocean Maya Gabeira; the Enawene Nawe tribe of the Brazilian rainforest; and the underwater museums of Jason deCaires Taylor.

Scored with diverse music and accompanied with 11 different languages, Super Nature sees a growing network of makers take to this antique format, to share images, thoughts and philosophies in a gentle, beguiling way. The result is a fresh perspective on the most pressing subject of our times.

Directed by Ed Sayers – founder of the global Super 8 filmmaking competition Straight 8 – alongside producers Rebecca Wolff (Grand Theft Hamlet) and Beth Allan (Since Yesterday) and executive producer Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna).

Join us at St Mark's Church Hall from 6.15pm we will start the film at 6.30pm.

This is a British Board of Film Classification (BBFC): PG

Venue details:

St Mark's Church Hall is a short walk from both the rail and bus stations. There is also a small car park to the front of the building.

The venue is wheelchair accessible. There is a toilet which is accessible for wheelchair users.

All the rooms for the event are on the ground floor.This event is free but booking is essential.

Any questions about the event or the venue please email: flourishpeterborough@gmail.com

To find out more about Gateway and any other great films they are screening see: Gateway Film Festival | film | Peterborough, UK (https://www.gatewayfilmfestival.co.uk/)

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