Shouting at the Ground

SHOUTING AT THE GROUND is an agricultural and archaeological murder mystery circling around a void, oscillating its images and sounds between states of violent networked embodiment and pitch black absence, of burial and exhumation. In a peat bog in North West England a Spanish woman was murdered, her body buried and subsumed into the treacherously dense ecological matter. A matter which labours have extracted for centuries, selling this fertile material as fuel worldwide; a material which upon burning releases timeless carbon deposits into our increasingly precarious and damaged ecosphere. After laying dormant under the rich dark peat for an unknown amount of time a body returned to the surface but its identity had become dislocated; it has become entwined with the history of its material host.

  • Duration: 17 Min.
  • Countries: United Kingdom
  • Languages: English
  • Production year: 2017

  • Director: Graeme Arnfield
  • Nominated: Goldener Key