Uncertain Ground: Landscape, Memory and Theatres of Conflict

A screening of Shona Illingworth’s film Balnakiel, with its exploration of the complex forces of military and cultural memory and history in northwest Scotland provided the stimulus for this symposium on the Scottish landscape and its historical and contemporary aesthetic and political resonance. This event, organised by Film and Video Umbrella and CCA, and supported by the Wellcome Trust, was part of Film and Video Umbrella’s 25 Frames programme, which staged 25 key artists’ moving-image works chosen from over 200 works commissioned by this leading arts organisation over the past 25 years. The symposium included: presentations by Shona Illingworth with Professor Martin A. Conway (City); Professor Catriona Mossison (Heriot Watt); Dr Issie MacPhail (UHI and Glasgow) and Professor Andrew Hoskins (Glasgow), and was chaired by Steven Bode, Director of Film and Video Umbrella.