Video

Learn how video is being used in 'Women Back to the Land'.

A key strand of the project is creating video content that draws on in-depth research conducted with women landworkers. Since the beginning, film has been used to capture the researcher and others in live action and conversation.

This practice has helped the researcher become oriented to the project's topic, exploring women’s journeys into land-based work, and the broader cultural and political context around this movement in Britain today.

Sowing seeds| Women Back to the Land Project

  • Video transcript

    It is the 10th of February and I am just heading out into the garden, to do, I think some land preparation this morning.

    I'm just attempting to get some of this compost into the recycling box, and feeling really excited, about doing it.

    I feel like a real gardener.

    [MUSIC - Acoustic guitar]

    A woman performs gardening tasks, emptying buckets of compost onto the ground.

    This is where I'm going to try and establish a three sisters garden again, I think with more corn hopefully this time.

Psychosocial research, video ethnography and participatory filmmaking

One of the key ambitions of this project is to create an informative and inspiring short film that portrays some of the hidden realities experienced by women as they enter into and move through land-based work. The aim of this is to empower participants by collaboratively re-presenting their journeys 'back to the land', whilst informing and inspiring wider audiences through screenings and social media dissemination.

The approach taken in the project combines psychosocial research methods - life-history style interviews, supervision sessions and group analysis within a ‘Many Minds’ group - with insights from video ethnography and participatory filmmaking.