Gans’n Dhama Wedhen (In the Company of the Mother Tree)

An immersive 360 film poem from the heart of a Cornish temperate rainforest.

A short, meditative 360 full dome experience that gives the audience a sense of being immersed in the affective essence of the ancient Atlantic temperate rainforest of Cabilla Cornwall, UK.

Using 360 video, macro cinematography, layered vocals in both English and Kernewek (Cornish) and an ambisonics (19.1) soundscape, the film focusses on more-than-human ‘characters’ – the central ‘Mother Tree’, ferns, lichen, moss, mycelium, the river, a granite rock, and the tiny critters of the rainforest – encouraging the audience to consider their own interrelationship with nature.

This project marks an ongoing collaborative relationship between director Adam Laity and o-region, with Laity working as Director of Photography on Brown Willy and Long Way Back, as well as providing cinematography for other projects, most recently White Horse.

Produced as a partnership between o-region, Black Cat Films, Screen Cornwall, Thousand Year Trust, Falmouth University & AMATA and Real Immersive.

• Written, Directed & Cinematography by Adam Laity
• Composition & Audio Production by Antti Sakari Saario
• Field Recording by Antti Sakari Saario & D Ferrett
• Tree Voices & Narrative Consultant by D Ferrett
• Produced by Brett Harvey & Simon Harvey
• Exec Producer Laura Giles

For further work by Adam Laity please visit www.adamlaity.co.uk

Please respond to our partner AMATA’s audience survey: https://forms.office.com/e/rX9b2HWbhA

For further information about the vital restoration work happening at Cabilla Cornwall please visit https://thousandyeartrust.org/