Seasons Lost
A short, poetic adventure documentary highlighting the beauty of hiking Scotland's East Highland Way in different seasons, through the lens of climate change.
Seasons Lost is a poetic, participatory and performative adventure film, which favours a celebratory, disarming, and cinematic documentation of the Scottish mountain landscapes, interspersed with interview footage.
Focusing on the seasons and the elements, the sensory stimulus of the environment is amplified through shallow depths of field and close camerawork, whilst jumping out to expansive wides and sweeping drone footage that captures the scale of the Highlands landscape from above.
The colour palette is variable; it moves through fresh greens, powerful sunrises into bleak greys, dark clouds and even, fresh white snow. The playful element of Seasons Lost is allowing the seasons to show themselves amongst the threat of climate change.
There is an atmospheric, dynamic orchestral score, with intimate narration provided by the interview footage and the sounds of the seasons – crunching leaves underfoot, wildlife, rain
pattering on tents – which is ever-present and heightened to compliment the film’s themes.
Our approach is motivated by a nostalgic feeling of loss in regards to seasonal weather and we hope to have allowed the experts, locals and landscape to speak for itself.
