Letters to the Landscape

By Denise Startin 2025 - 2026

Title page from cinematic essay

Film and Video
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. 35 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.