Cardiff folk, 'Underland' the documentary based on Robert MacFarlane's book is on at Chapter next week.
#Cardiff #ChapterArtsCentre #RobertMacfarlane #Underland #film
Cardiff folk, 'Underland' the documentary based on Robert MacFarlane's book is on at Chapter next week.
#Cardiff #ChapterArtsCentre #RobertMacfarlane #Underland #film
🌳 I don't read much nature writing but was very taken by Underland, happy to learn that it is now a film.
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/political-writing/underland/
This looks so good. I meant to buy the book but in my haste purchased the audiobook. Never mind, thirteen hours of aural riches await.
Looking for podcasts involving Robert Macfalane I stumbled on this.
https://overcast.fm/+ABA7Tuz8uow
Another happy discovery was this early collaboration by Rob Petit and Robert Macfarlane.

As the hit travelogue about the worlds beneath us becomes a film, its maker takes us on a voyage through Las Vegas storm drains and the caves of Yucatán – via Goatchurch Cavern in the bowels of Somerset
Doc Talk Goes ‘Underland’ And Overground To Cover DC/DOX And Bentonville Film Festival
#Documentary #News #Podcast #BentonvilleFilmFestival #DCDOX #DocTalk #DocTalkPodcast #Underland
https://deadline.com/2025/06/bentonville-film-festival-dc-dox-reports-1236441568/
Darren Aronofsky Produces ‘Mythological’ Cave Documentary ‘Underland’ with Sandra Hüller Narrating — Watch the First Look
#IndieWire #News #Trailers #DarrenAronofsky #Film #SandraHuller #Underland
I loved Robert McFarlane's book #Underland when it was published in 2019 (https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2019/05/17/book-review-underland-a-deep-time-journey/)
Stoked to see it has been turned into a documentary (https://tribecafilm.com/films/underland-2025). What a dream team of collaborators!
Rereading bits of Robert Macfarlane’s book this morning.
"Maybe, then, what we need to understand the forest's underland,’
I say, ‘is a new language altogether - one that doesn't automatically convert it to our own use values. Our present grammar militates against animacy; our metaphors by habit & reflex subordinate & anthropomorphize the more-than-human world. Perhaps we need an entirely new language system to talk about fungi...We need to speak in spores.'”
It's a reading day in the Outer Hebrides.
#outerhebrides #robertmacfarlane #underland #booksofmastadon
#NowPlaying #WaxTrax
'Power #Ambient' mix, A Strangely Isolated Place (ASIP)
https://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/blog/2022/6/8/portals-power-ambient
'ambient' so yes arrhythmic laptop wash; 'power' so too yes drone-mass, heavy somatica--as much #MBV as #BrianEno in the sonic DNA, if dignified+polite like icecaps melting...
...until final 15min: sawtooth tidal wave of glitch+bash+dense antiquiet hits shore. lonely machine buzz aftermath.
seaside-cave chapter of macfarlane's #UNDERLAND.
an extraordinary enveloping sonic narrative from ASIP.
"Ambient as interesting as it is interesting" The term Power Ambient is yes, another attempt at putting a badge or genre to a wide-encompassing range of music stylistically, but it’s one that I have often gravitated towards amongst many others when describing a particular style of m