
Julia Parks
2021BBC Bladderwrack
Julia Parks
BBC countryfile visit Roa Island to document a 16mm film being developed in seaweed. The process of making the film is revealed with the final footage capturing the landscape and fauna found on Rampside, Piel Island and Roa Island. The film was developed using a range of bladderwrack seaweeds, vitamin C and washing soda. The soundtrack was produced using field recordings from Roa Island and Freesounds.
BBC Bladderwrack
The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk
Julia Parks
Julia Parks' The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk offers up precise descriptions – and the poems of Cumbrian writer Kate Davis, which diligently recount the process of learning to walk following a childhood diagnosis of polio.
The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk