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SHIFTING LANDSCAPES FILM SERIES
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Directed by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
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“I could see and feel with my own eyes how it feels to live with the land and somehow that reawakened those memories again. The memories of our ancestors. And now I feel it. I feel it in my bones. I feel it in my blood. I feel it circling through my body.”
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The truth that we are of the Earth remains present, even when it becomes buried under the humancentricity of modern life; even if we don’t recognize it. The land, so completely entwined with who we are, is both home and ancestor to us; nourishment and spirit. It is the root of the self, and the memory of this sacred relationship can be awoken through story, whether by passing down stories over generations of a glacier’s changing face, or by bearing witness to stories of deep kinship between people, forests, and rivers in one’s homeland. This week, we premiere Taste of the Land, the fourth and final film in our Shifting Landscapes documentary series, in which award-winning Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam journeys into an ancestral remembrance of the land as inextricable from who she is.
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Since fleeing Cambodia with her family during the Khmer Rouge regime, and a genocide which devastated an entire culture and displaced millions of people from their homes, Kalyanee has spent much of her life searching for a rooted connection to place. This film follows her to the landscapes of her homeland—changing through deforestation, industrialization, urbanization and development—where she has spent years tenderly documenting the disappearing, relational ways of life held within them. As she comes to know these places not only through the lens of her camera, but through the intimate relationships she forms with the landscapes and people whose stories she shares, Kalyanee finds her way back into an embodied, spiritual relationship with the land.
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Directed by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
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Alongside Taste of the Land, the first three films in our new Shifting Landscapes documentary series are screening exclusively on Emergence, sharing stories of what it means to reawaken and hold love for the living world as the places we call home are changed by ecological destruction and irreversible loss. In The Nightingale’s Song, British folk singer Sam Lee joins the nightingale in song as development threatens it with extinction in the UK. Aloha ‘Āina explores a love for and of the land embodied by Native Hawaiian poet Jamaica Osorio as she fights to protect the sacred Mauna Kea from the construction of a thirty-meter telescope. And The Last Ice Age journeys with Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason to the melting Vatnajökull glacier as he searches for the myths large enough to hold the vastness of the climate crisis.
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A Four-Part Course with Award-Winning Filmmaker Kalyanee Mam
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In the Khmer language, the word for taste is រសជាតិ rosacheate. To know the plants រុក្ខជាតិ roukkhcheate, to know nature ធម្មជាតិ thommocheate, to know your country ប្រទេស ជាតិ brates cheate, and to know your origins, you must know and feel the land through the senses. You must taste the land.
Join us for a special online course led by Sundance Award–winning filmmaker Kalyanee Mam, inviting a deepening of our relationship to place through heart-centered storytelling. Offering a framework for braiding land and story, she will guide participants in exploring how heart-centered narratives can both help us hold grief and bring us into deeper kinship with the more-than-human world. Learn more and register below.
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Our first hardcover edition, Volume 5: Time explores the vast mystery of Time. Separated from the fabric of the cosmos, Time has been distilled into a tool of control. But what kind of Time listens and moves in tune with the Earth; travels not in a straight line, but in a circle? Journeying through its many landscapes—deep time, geological time, kinship time, ancestral time, and sacramental time—this volume asks: If we can recognize a different kind of Time, can we come to dwell within it?
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Don’t miss our latest interviews, poetry, author-narrated essays, and special multipart series exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality, with the world's leading ecological writers, poets, thinkers, and storytellers.
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