Earthing October is communion between imagination and experience. How children read animal behaviours, understand their place as predators within an animal landscape and what happens when they try to think like prey and act like hunters. A dance transpires in the shadows, the firelight, a song is written by a wolf and masks cross the boundary between human, nature, play and instinct.

Masks invite us to explore "the other" in ourselves, to generate new levels of identity and imagine a way of being that beyond our usual selves. On Samhain, ancient Celtic lore relates that the veil between the material world and the spirit world is at its thinnest, so that we may remember old ways, look beyond the physical and explore a world of anthropomorphism and ancestral lineages, kept at bay in the modern world, to connect with long forgotten animal instincts and the mythical.

The Earthing project is a year long collaborative exploration in response to nature and experience. Earthing October is one of a series of twelve short films. Each shot in a day during the named month, under the predominating weather conditions. We operate under a leave no trace, environmental pact. Which includes litter picking, broken glass removal and sustainable forms of transport and creation.

Palmer, McKinnon, Sandelin, Dermatopoulou & Shaw are a collective of filmmakers, performers and artists. We are influenced by nature, environmental activism, poetry, female surrealists, history, mythology, water, fire, play, storytelling and each other