Jon Dovey

Re-mixes and extends Perestroika (2009) into two sequences. Sequence one constritutes the 2009 version, while the second sequence constructs a new framing narrative that reinterprets and reconfigures both the imagery and the experience of the first. Part psycho-geography, part dream and part environmental allegory.

Sarah Turner's film is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember. The stunning imagery comes solely from the window of the Trans-Siberian train, shot first in 1987-8 and then again in 2007-8. The re-enactment of the journey is a memory work, a re-enactment of the past in the present through the process of filming. But the return journey is haunted by the voices of two dead friends that dominate the soundscape of the 'archive' footage.

Collard Hill, on the Polden Hills in Somerset, is a publicly accessible location where the Large Blue butterfly has been successfully reintroduced. Over a series of visits, the filmmakers acquainted themselves with this idyllic place, taking time to understand just how much conservation and human intervention is needed to reintroduce a butterfly.

Collard Hill, on the Polden Hills in Somerset, is a publicly accessible location where the Large Blue butterfly has been successfully reintroduced. Over a series of visits, the filmmakers acquainted themselves with this idyllic place, taking time to understand just how much conservation and human intervention is needed to reintroduce a butterfly.

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