TAMARA ELKINS

The Mountain

In this film a miniaturised mountain landscape is inhabited by an anthropomorphised mountain who decides to uproot themselves after a millennium, shedding its outer layer to reveal a crystallised body. The film weaves an amalgam of personal memories, popular culture and a golden age of cinema aesthetic to form a contemporary myth.

My research for this project began by looking at the way that walking through an environment effects psychological change and subsequently evolved during my time in Scotland. My focus became about seeing the aliveness of the Scottish landscape, as a fertile ground for the development of contemporary myth and personal narrative. In essence the work became about transitions in life and the way in which our environment influences those transitions emotionally, psychologically and physically.