On Location: Sensing Place in Landscape Cinema

This practice-based research responds to the recent ’turn to materiality’ in arts and humanities, a paradigm shift towards a ’material culture’ that focuses on the relationships and interactions between the human and the non-human: flora and fauna, the natural and built environment, meteorological and elemental forces, and technological artefacts. This ’material turn’ ruptures binary oppositions, such as privileging ’culture’ over ’nature’. It foregrounds the body and confers agency to the non-human, and considers matter to be active rather than passive and inert, a participant rather than an object to be observed and examined.