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The film Reading Landscape with David Holmgren is now complete and ready for you to experience, thanks to the incredible generosity of our supporters!
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A heartfelt thank you to every one who contributed towards bringing this important project to life. We truly believe this film will resonate for generations to come.
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As Dan Palmer, David Holmgren, and Dave Meagher envisioned, Reading Landscape with David Holmgren is now freely accessible to all. However, the journey doesn’t end here. Ongoing costs such as website maintenance and upkeep ensure this valuable resource remains available.
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Introducing the Project
My first experience of David Holmgren reading landscape blew my mind. I had no idea it was possible to learn so much about a place that way. By simply walking around and directly observing what is there now, David can read directly into the patterns of climate, geology, and water flow underlying the way life is expressed in that particular place.
I knew I was witnessing something important, a kind of core human capacity modern humans seem to have mostly lost. A pathway leading back toward attuned and immersive participation as positive agents within our local ecologies.
The more I wandered about landscapes with David, the more I found myself paying attention to what he was doing, and, importantly, being, as he really got to know a place. The more I noticed, the more I was enabled to read landscapes by myself, with family and friends.
Somewhere along the way, I started thinking “someone ought to be documenting this stuff and turning it into a resource to help interested others on their own reading landscape journeys.”
A year or so later two things dawned on me: 1) someone was documenting this stuff, and 2) this someone was me! I had already gathered some low-quality footage of David reading land. I now invited my dear friend, videographer, and budding reader of landscape Dave Meagher to start tagging along with his professional gear.
Before long, the three of us were organising more places to go and film as the idea of a feature-length documentary film firmed up in our minds. We have been to farms, an abandoned arboretum, David’s local gully, botanical gardens, suburban back yards, suburban streets. We have hung out with an eight-year-old reader of land named Woody. We have filmed David’s partner Su sharing what it is like living with such an avid reader of landscape. The whole time, Dave’s cameras and microphones have been rolling.
We also have more than enough love and enthusiasm to see this thing through. The main thing we need others to help out with is a little financial support to fund completing this film to the level of quality we’re committed to. While we want to make the main film free for all to see, we’re planning all sorts of additional pieces of work we’ll make available as a thanks to project supporters.
I thank you for stopping by the project, and for any interest you might have in the topic of reading landscape as a core aspect of reconnecting with the rest of the living world.
Dan Palmer, Updated July 2021
Vale Dan Palmer (1974 – 2022)
A Tribute to Dan Palmer
This film was the vision of the late Dan Palmer, a much loved human across the globe and a celebrated voice in the permaculture sphere, who tragically lost his life in August 2022.
Dan wasn’t able to experience the final film that he set out to create. However, his exuberant energy was present throughout the filmmaking process from the very first day of shooting right through to the packed premiere cinema screening, and we the filmmakers believe Dan would celebrate this achievement with his cheeky grin and a big thumbs-up.
We will forever miss you, Dan.
Dave Meagher on behalf of the filmmaking team
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Acknowledging Country
We acknowledge this film is being made not only on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, but shares the reading of this country.
For tens of thousands of years, the traditional custodians of this land have been reading landscape at a level we today can scarcely imagine.
Learn more about the Dja Dja people and community here.
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