28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Field Resistance
director: Emily Drummer
original title: Field Resistance
country: United States
year: 2019
running time: 15 min.
synopsis
A conceptual film, balancing between a documentary and science fiction, explores environmental devastation in Iowa, USA that remains largely overlooked. Through microscopic images of plants, footage from university greenhouses, karst sinkholes with primary flora and fauna, or a dilapidated granary, the director conjures up a dystopic vision, radically restructuring relationships between man, nature and technology.
“The film imagines a future in which the changing climate and environmental conditions are recast as an active resistance to nature’s own devastation. … Plants, earth’s first communicators, are now its last. Humanity is but a blip.” E. Drummer
biography
American director Emily Drummer (1990) studied film production at Iowa University. Her films draw on research, exploring mutual relationship between modern technology and natural world. Apart from directing, Emily also works as a festival programmer and a university lecturer.
more about film
| director: | Emily Drummer |
| producer: | Emily Drummer |
| photography: | Emily Drummer |
| editing: | Emily Drummer |
| sound design: | Emily Drummer, Philip Rabalais |
