The fears of globalisation, colonisation and nationalism enmeshed within the Anthropocene can all be seen in Virgil’s Georgics, the blood and soil, the notion of the soldier farmer, agriculture as a martial force, empire, microbiology, commodification of landscape, civil war, crop rotation, migration and the uncertain topographies of time.
These threads are teased out through the film, which documents the literal and metaphorical unearthing of these entanglements, using metal detectors to trace the layers of contemporary and historical materiality within the soil of this place. This allows me to wander the edge lands, not only of Quicke’s farm, but of the text, the marginalia, the paratextuality of the Georgics.
https://stillmoving.org/projects/marginalia-1
Add to playlist