Earthing December reflects the death of the old year, the cold, leafless, barren landscape. Buried within it gestates a yearning, the potential of transformation, resurrection. The human ache for communion with the anthropomorphic world and the longing for the nature within us. It rewrites the myth of Leda and the swan, reclaiming the power of female sexuality and desire and a resultant transcendent mutation.

"It's whole atmosphere is so ritualistic and the interface between human and nature so very beautifully evocative, with such subtle nuance and visual language of the doctrine of signatures...it is strange and strangely moving," Penny Slinger

earth

// verb gerund or present participle: earthing

1. connect (an electrical device) with the ground

2. drive (a fox) to its underground lair o (of a fox) run to its underground lair

3. cover the root and lower stem of a plant with heaped-up earth

The Earthing project is a year long collaborative exploration in response to nature and experience. Earthing December is one of twelve short films, each shot in a day during the named month, under the predominating weather conditions. We hold a collective ambition to electrify and transform old worlds into new mythologies. We share a commitment to instinct, vulnerability, inclusive connection, and sustainable achievement.

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.