Ross Little

Common Ground - A Forest At Work

Common Ground is a portrait of Arkaig Community Forest in the West Highlands, a remnant of the ancient Caledonian pinewoods that is currently being ecologically transformed by both humans and non-humans. The film reveals this landscape to be an ever-changing site of conflicts and collaborations between plants, fungi, animals, machines and people.

It is a film that explores whether we can ever understand the non-human world and our relationship to it from outside of a human perspective? In seeing the complex and entangled web of life that this forest embraces, we sense that humans are part of this story but by no means central to it.