As you might see in this blog, there is quite a focus on how landscape fits into art and history.
The Barbizon school (see 44 Portal) starring Daub one and Daub two
WG Sebald The Rings of Saturn + Patience (see 11 Lazy)
Simon Schama Landscape and Memory (skip to the second chapter)
The very excellent catalogue for Tate Liverpool Radical Landscapes show, and https://www.bossmorris.com/
And remember, even although one of the attractions of working with landscape (and not actors) is that it will usually let you get on with it and not talk back, things can still get out of hand… https://vimeo.com/134753389
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Below are two interpretations of Nephin Mountain in Ireland. My grandmother told me tales of how she and her friends as small children took food up that hill to the men who were hiding out there during the War of Independence.
The Quiet Hill ~ notebook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXxu5Qttr2s
This was (very) loosely based on John Wayne/Maureen O’Hara film The Quiet Man (1952). After being told I was Irish by Ancestry DNA, I visited the old country, the hill, the graves, the set... what a business model! We arrived in Cong, where it was filmed, at the same time as a coachload of American tourists and couldn’t resist the opportunity to appear in a short re-enactment. Me as the vicar and Catriona as the vicar’s wife. Sadly, no Oscars.
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