Super Nature
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In a new twist on nature documentary, the old-school format of super-8 offers a stunningly impressionistic, hopeful vision of our footprint upon the world.
Forget ultra-high-definition cameras and highly technical imagery. Compiled exclusively from super-8 footage shot on vintage cameras in 25 countries across five continents, Super Nature offers an unexpectedly rich, gloriously lo-fi view of the world, captured by 40 local volunteer cinematographers – including Australians Oliver Birt, Caitlin Henderson and Fraser Johnston – who filmed nearby nature that spoke to them, providing their thoughts as commentary. From Welsh puffins and Patagonian whales to Italian mountain ranges and Indigenous Brazilian communities, Super Nature is a global love letter to nature, written in all the textures of the human heart.
It’s a testament to Ed Sayers’s lifelong passion for super-8 that he could craft such a coherent narrative from these disparate vignettes, shot by super-8 aficionados as well as biologists, conservationists and environmental activists. Sharing his vision was Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy; Senna, MIFF 2011), who was so inspired by Sayers’s pitch that he came on board as executive producer. Despite our planet’s obvious challenges, Super Nature is full of compassion and hope for its future, reconnecting us to our world through the nostalgic intimacy and vibrant immediacy of its format.
“Super Nature is a mesmerising, thought-provoking, innovative and achingly beautiful meditation on our place in a rapidly changing world.” – The Herald
Contributors Fraser Johnston and Oliver Birt are guests of the festival and will be in attendance at all sessions of the film.
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