Private Project

LAND/SCAPE

The word ‘landscape’ is made of two parts: ‘land’, from the Old English lond, land, meaning “ground, soil” + -skap, related to the word ‘shape’ from the Old English scieppan, meaning “to create, to form” (Ingold 2011).

This short film is a multispecies ethnographic collaboration between humans and donkeys, in the permacultural site of Centre Thar dö Ling, in the Valley of Sagana (Sicily, Italy), where the land is being regenerated, and regenerative, through more-than-human ecological interactions. Land is shaped as land shapes.

XXVII OpenEyes Film Fest (Marburg Germany) wrote about Land/Scape:
Since the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University has brought new attention and aesthetic impetus to research film through acclaimed productions, this film genre has flourished once again. Land/Scape is about the confrontation between the soil, the earth, the land and its formation, development and creation, realised in a cross-species ecology of perception.

  • Michal Krawczyk
    Director
  • Michal Krawczyk and Giulia Lepori
    Writer
  • Michal Krawczyk and Giulia Lepori
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student, Other
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 27, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Griffith University
  • Pantalla Rota Art Exhibition
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    December 4, 2020
  • Regard Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival
    Zurig
    Switzerland
    October 16, 2020
    World Premiere
  • Festival de Cine FENACIR
    San Luis de Potosi
    Mexico
    October 30, 2020
  • Kinesthesia Film Festival

    United Kingdom
    July 16, 2021
  • XXVII OpenEyes Film Fest Marburg

    Germany
    July 21, 2021
  • Cinenova
    Lisbon
    Portugal
    October 1, 2021
Director Biography - Michal Krawczyk

Michal Krawczyk is a PhD candidate at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia) within the field of Environmental Humanities, combining ethnography with cinema.

His first film ‘Yuyos’ (2018) co-directed with Giulia Lepori (Griffith University), is an ethnographic inquiry into the ethnobotanical knowledge of one peasant family in Paraguay, was screened at film festivals and conferences worldwide through 2018-2019.

Their cinematic project ‘Land/Scape’, an experimental multispecies collaboration between humans and donkeys in the Mediterranean island of Sicily is currently being screened at film festivals.

'How does a bark feel like' (2020), slow ecomediation merging moving images with words, will be screened in 2021 at Vienna Biennale for Change dedicated to Climate Care: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures.

Dondolo and Giorgiana are two donkeys that live and work the land in the permacultural site of Centre for Development of Consciousness – Thar dö Ling, in Italy.

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