George Finlay Ramsay

Stromboli: Interview with a Volcano

George Finlay Ramsay

"How long is a long time?" "Stromboli: Interview with a Volcano" is a conversation with the youngest member of the Aeolian family Stromboli (one of eight volcanic islands off the coast of Sicily), the lighthouse of the Mediterranean. Spagnuolo asks questions to the volcano and the eruptions answer. In the artist’s own words: "I slept at the top of the volcano and fell asleep to the sound of it erupting, whispering pillow talk. In the morning I went and made the film, asking questions without the need for an answer. When I arrived back at the beach at lunch time I swam in the sea and napped on the black sand. My mind unfolded in the most fluid way for a long time. This film attempts to convey the feeling." The film is partof the project Volcano & Regret.

CASTOROCENE

George Finlay Ramsay

Nick Green

After humans have destroyed the world (again) an unnamed beast swims up from a forgotten swamp and rebuilds the world from zilch. CASTOROCENE, shifting between essay and semi-fictionalised nature documentary, is a ‘film pome’ dedicated to one of nature’s great architects. Depicting wetlands as the living entity that they are, the camera dwells on a landscape of viscous textures, organic debris and nonhuman sculptures, considering parities between acts of borrowing, rewilding and animal world building. Filmed by artist Alexander Hetherington on 16mm film in the wetlands at Bamff in East Perthshire, Scotland.