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For What We Have To Do (2025)

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Film currently IN POST-PRODUCTION


66minutes | Super 16mm to 4K | Exhibition: Digital 4K, Colour, Stereo, 1.66:1


For What We Have To Do is a documentary made as part of a UKRI-funded research project - the UK Treescapes Programme - exploring how riparian woodlands can support climate resilience and ecological recovery.

Filmed in the Colne Valley, West Yorkshire, the film weaves together intimate portraits of people who live in, care for, and creatively engage with the landscape: an artist working with natural materials; a mapmaker drawing from experience and movement; conservation volunteers dedicated to regeneration and renewal; a walker finding spiritual meaning in nature; National Trust members, wild swimmers, tree planters, musicians, poets, and farmers — all deeply engaged in the land.

What emerges is a layered reflection on care, relationship, and attention — and how art and creativity can become ways of knowing and sustaining the places we are part of. Rather than offering fixed answers, the film invites viewers into a profound contemplation of what it means to live with a landscape, and how our experiences of, in, and with nature might shape the futures we hope to inhabit.


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