Boundary Layers

Sreathan Crìche 

 Stiùiriche: Amanda Thompson, RA 16mion. 

’S e obair film sgrìn-dùbailte agus aiste labhairteach a th’ ann an Sreathan Crìche. Tha am film seo mun ath-bhuannachadh le nàdar aig an seann muillin-stàillin Ravenscraig, Tobar na Màthar a chaidh a dhùnadh le riaghaltas Thatcher sna 1990an. 

Nach tòisich sinn a’ coimhead air na còinneachan, na bryophytes. Glè thric, ‘s iadsan a’ chiad lus-stèadheachail a bhios a’ ruighinn. Thathar den bheachd gu bheil na còinneachan seo coltach ris an fheadhainn a thàinig air tìr bho chionn còrr is 400millean bliadhna. Às aonais freumhan, bidh ribeagan an acrachadh air uachdar chlachan, sameant, craobhan, logichean, brèigean - dad sam bith as urrainn dhaibh a lorg. Tha iad a’ tarraing am beathachadh às an àrrainneachd mun cuairt. Bha an obair seo mar phàirt den A Fragile Correspondence, taisbeanadh co-thaobhach na h-Alba airson an Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. 

Boundary Layers

Dir: Amanda Thompson, UK, 16min 

Boundary Layers is a dual-screen film work and spoken-word essay about nature’s reclamation of the former steelworks at Ravenscraig, Motherwell, closed by Thatcher's government in the 1980s. 

Let’s start with the mosses, the bryophytes. They’re often the first colonist species to arrive, and it’s thought these mosses are not dissimilar to the first plants that came out of the water onto land, more than four hundred million years ago. Without roots, tiny hairs anchor them to the surfaces of rocks, cement, trees, logs, bricks, anything that they can find, and they pull their nutrition from the atmosphere around them.

The work was part of A Fragile Correspondence, Scotland’s collateral exhibition for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023