The seasons come, the seasons go

This is the second part of my 'Cowslip Sunday' film. In this section I have used footage shot between January 1st and early March 2012 - to try to give some sense of the changes affecting the landscape in and around the Nottinghamshire village of Lambley during that period of time.


The next section of the film will then feature footage of the first rehearsal for the Cowslip Sunday play, which took place on March 11th of this year - I blogged about that event earlier:


http://poetryseen-in-lambley.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/cowslip-sunday-2012-first-play.html


The film will then feature the successive rehearsals, filmed between March and early May, interwoven with footage of the landscape during that period. This will then culminate with a sequence documenting some of the activities of Cowslip Sunday itself - May 6th.


My intention with the film is not to provide a continuous narrative of the preparations for the play and of the period of time in which they took place but instead to provide a personal reflection of that process, which will inevitably (though not willfully) be selective and somewhat fragmented - in the way that most of our experiences actually are.


I have taken the editorial decision to produce the end of the film next - and I have just completed the penultimate sequence of the film. I will post this section when my Vimeo account allows - for economic reasons I am only able to use the 'free' video hosting option that Vimeo offer (and I'm very grateful to Vimeo for allowing me a means of uploading these films).