In The Flame We Reveal Ourselves is a short documentary essay film about climate anxiety, rendered solely through music and image. The interplay of music (by musical collaborators, Afterlands), and visual storytelling explores our desire to protect the environment while paradoxically allowing its destruction.
Director, Virginia Heath said, “As director, I collaborated closely with musician/composers, Afterlands, to create a profound meditation on the beauty and fragility of nature, the existential crisis facing humanity and the possibility of hope for the future.”
“The film’s female gaze challenges media representations of the ecological disaster that dominate our news reports, that make us feel powerless to act. As the female ‘witness’ journeys across the island landscape, she traverses layers of time and space. Connecting with the ghosts of our past lives, she encounters the fierce, primordial, female spirit of Celtic mythology. The film evokes the imagery of wind, fire and water as metaphors for destruction, but also defiance and human connection.”
The film is a collaboration between Faction North Ltd and is made with the support of Sheffield Hallam University Research and Innovation Fund