Die Modernity Die!

Documentary Series – The City Wild

Ive always had a desire to make a series of nature programmes. I imagined myself camping out in a little tent in the wilds, reading my latest novel, cameras waiting patiently for a natural scene to play itself out.
The BBC have pretty much cornered the market, but there was always one possible narrative that they [...]

Everything is sold
For highway’s guns and gold
The earth, the sky, the sea
Future and history
This is not how it’s supposed to be
And those who died to set us free
Must be ashamed of our liberty
In a self serving society
Where computers are a deity
And everything’s about the me
We sit by and watch it all die
Trained not to try
As [...]

State of Separation – Production Diary 6

THE FINAL ONE PAGER
Logline
Follow our intrepid reporter as he struggles to ‘go green’ while he investigates the contemporary physical and philosophical relationship between Irish people and the earth and attempts to understand how that relationship has evolved over time.
Synopsis
We find ourselves on the eve of a potentially new and exciting industrial revolution. It is a [...]

Documentary Series – How The Irish Lost Their Nature

I say ‘Irish’ but this series is relevant to all Western societies and many non-Western ones also. Ireland will be used as a case study. It’s a good example, as Gaelic society saw itself very much part of the earth, physically and philosophically, while today…..
The story that was to unfold over this series is something [...]

I don’t care who did it man, I just wanna know who did it.

State of Separation – Production Diary 5

Slight change of tac here but its all good.
This project started as a way for me to go out with my camera independently and record the reality of our current relationship with the earth and to ask ‘how did we get here?’ and ‘how do we get out of here?’
I called this little project ‘State [...]

Live and Let Love

The Written One finds that he is surprisingly (and unintentionally) ‘Living Green’

I realised something the other day that surprised me at first, gave me a little bit of pride and then shamed me into a new way of thinking.
I realised that I live a ‘greener’ lifestyle than anyone I know and I have put absolutely no thought into it whatsoever.
I never identified with those seemingly happy [...]

No Phone, No Pool, No Pets, No Cigarettes.