Dust & Flow + I Think We Begin as Light
Rikke Luther, Emma Harris & Sille Skovgaard / Iceland, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Denmark & Greenland / 69 min
Mud can tell us a lot about the planet’s deep past and possible future – and ‘Dust & Flow’ is the film that translates its silent language into an imaginative stream of thought. An interdisciplinary and thought-provoking film work by artist Rikke Luther, who with great intellectual wingspan gives shape to the liquid stuff and analyzes what it means for our perception of geology and climate.
Could a collaboration between plants, light and microorganisms show us a new and more fruitful path for agriculture? In ‘I Think We Begin as Light’ you can take a journey beneath the earth’s surface and meet the farmers who are making the attempt.
Dust & Flow: Muds, Movement, Time, Scale
Rikke Luther / Iceland, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Denmark & Greenland / 2025 / World Premiere / 29 min
Mud can tell us a lot about the planet's deep past and possible future - and here is the film that translates its silent language into an imaginative stream of thought.
The Earth is moving beneath our feet. Climatic changes have planetary consequences, and where visual artists of the 20th century were more concerned with landscapes, artist Rikke Luther has turned to a more recent phenomenon: mudscapes.
‘Dust & Flow’ is an interdisciplinary and thought-provoking film with a huge intellectual wingspan that gives shape to the liquid stuff of mud and analyzes what it means for our perception of geology and climate, but also of contemporary political and social movements. For his magnificent images from Iceland, Gotland and Svalbard, Luther has written an original text that actor David Bateson performs on the soundtrack.
I Think We Begin as Light
Emma Harris & Sille Skovgaard / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere / 40 min
Could a collaboration between plants, light and microorganisms show us a new and more fruitful path for agriculture? Take a journey beneath the earth's surface and meet the farmers who are making the attempt.
Just below our feet lies a living ecosystem shrouded in mystery. A silent and busy community of fungi, bacteria and other microscopic organisms that support the soil’s natural ability to filter water, store carbon and ultimately grow food. But after decades of industrial agriculture, in 20 seasons there will be no fertile soil left to cultivate.
A group of regenerative Danish farmers are trying to change that through endless experiments in cultivating living landscapes. But gradually they realize that there are no simple solutions in nature. ‘I Think we Begin as Light’ is an ethnographic journey below the earth’s surface that explores the complex relationships between microorganisms, plants and sunlight. A sensuous and poetic film about the earth disappearing beneath us – and those who struggle to recreate it.