Letters to the Landscape
By Denise Startin
2025 - 2026
Title page from cinematic essay
- Film and Video
- Photography
- Personal Narratives & Identity
- Abstract & Conceptual
- Heritage & Archives
- Place Based
- Placemaking
- Geography
- West Yorkshire
- Emily Bronte
- Deep Mapping
- History
- Landscape
- Mapping
- Memory
- Place
- Walking
- Writing
Dimensions
Approx. 32 minutes
The essay film Letters to the Landscape is an epistolary diaologue and travelogue exploring the relations between Brontë Country and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. The artist uses various strategies of production including fieldwork, polyphony, narrative, fact and fiction, autobiography and the intimate. The essay incorporates postcards, letters, digital photography, found images and found text.
Still from cinematic essay.
Still from cinematic essay.
Still from cinematic essay.
Still from cinematic essay.
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