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20/07/2024

Hello everyone,

A little reminder if you are in Melbourne Australia tomorrow evening and want to see the film on the big screen, it will be playing at Cinema Nova as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.

5:20PM followed by a Q&A with David Holmgren, hosted by Beck Lowe.

There are a few tickets left which can be purchased via the Cinema Nova website so come on down!

We'd love to see you there ❤️

https://www.cinemanova.com.au/films/mdff-reading-landscape-with-david-holmgren

14/06/2024

https://www.cinemanova.com.au/films/mdff-reading-landscape-with-david-holmgren

14/06/2024

Exciting news! ‘Reading Landscape with David Holmgren’ has been selected to screen at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 😊 (details below).

We even made their Top 12 No-to-Miss Cinema Features 🏆

https://www.documentarydrive.com/mdff-2024-12-not-to-miss-cinema-features/

PLUS there will be a Q&A with David after the film!

Spread the word, we’d love to see you there 🌿

More to follow…

Date: Sunday 21 July 2024
Time: 5:20PM
Venue: Cinema Nova
Tickets here:

https://ticketing.cinemanova.com.au/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=1&txtSessionId=333468

20/02/2024

Regrettably, due to unforeseen circumstances we have had to cancel the screening this Sunday at the State Library of Victoria 😔

Don't worry though folks, we will make sure to present the film on the big screen again as soon as possible.

And remember you can watch the film for free here, using the password "Melliodora".

https://vimeo.com/875924987?share=copy

Apologies and thanks 🙏

18/02/2024

Hello everyone,

If you are in Melbourne (Australia) this weekend, the State Library of Victoria will be screening the film as part of the National Sustainability Festival.

Following the film will be a Q&A with David Holmgren and other members of the cast and crew.

COME JOIN US!

Date: Sunday 25 February 2024
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Venue: State Library Victoria

Tickets are $15+BF to help cover the cost of hiring the venue, and can be purchased via Humanitix or the SLF website.

Hope to see you there! 🌿

18/02/2024

Hello everyone!

A little update for you all on the progress of the film’s journey.

With the aim of getting as many people as possible to see the film, Reading Landscape with David Holmgren is currently running the international film festival circuit. So far it has been entered into 9 festivals, and has been chosen as an official selection in 4 festivals (the other 5 are still pending). It has even won 2 awards!

We will continue to enter festivals for another 6 months, which will complete the 12 months festival circuit.

Following this, the film will become a free resource as originally intended.

In the meantime, if you haven’t yet watched the film and wish to do so, you can find it here:

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/875924987

Just enter the password “Melliodora”

Also, if you happen to be in Melbourne (Australia) this weekend and want to watch the film on the big screen, it will be featured as part of the National Sustainability Festival at the State Library on Sunday 25th of February. This will be followed by a Q&A with David, Su and filmmaker Dave Meagher. Tickets are $15 (to cover screening fees). Come along! We’d love to see you there 🌱

https://sustainabilityfestival.au/

15/10/2023

https://youtube.com/live/Up_nPGqvz9Y?feature=share

Hello dear friends and guests. Please find the livestream link here.

15/10/2023

Hello everyone

Tonight we present the private screening of Reading Landscape with David Holmgren at the Theatre Royal in Castlemaine, followed by a Q&A with David Holmgren and participants in the filmmaking journey.

If you are unable to attend in person, we invite you to join via either of the YouTube links below.

THEATRE ROYAL SCREENING DETAILS:

FILM START: 7PM AEDT
FILM DURATION: 90 minutes
Q&A START: 8:45PM (approx.)

The Theatre Royal is in Castlemaine, Central Victoria. The bar opens at 4PM and food (pizza) is available form 5PM. Parking is available in the street or across the road at the IGA supermarket.

YOUTUBE LIVE STREAM DETAILS:

FILM START: 7PM AEDT (link will be live just prior to that)
FILM DURATION: 90 minutes
Q&A START: 8:45PM (approx.)

There are 2 links below: (1) is a direct link to the live stream and (2) is a link to my YouTube Channel, where you can click on the live stream. Both should get you to the event.

Use the Comments function in YouTube to ask questions and we will do our best to get them to the panel.

And a little reminder this is a private screening so please don’t make this material available to the general public :)

https://www.youtube.com/live/Mwz0QGIaTvM?si=RLyHQgJQWsjjYXJC

https://www.youtube.com//streams

I hope the technology works, I hope you enjoy the film.

Thank you for sharing this journey with us.

Much love,

Dave Meagher
Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor

14/10/2023

Bec Phillips Interview
20 June 2023
Djaara Country, Daylesford

It was an absolute honour to interview Djaara/Bpangerang woman Bec Phillips on Djaara Country for the film. Listening to Bec speak about her ancestors’ and the importance of reconnecting with Country, whilst standing on her ancestors’ Country was really profound.

Thanks Meg for jumping roles from interviewee to interviewer too - you did a great job 🙏

14/10/2023

Meg & Patrick Interview
25 May 2022
Djaara Country, Daylesford, Central Victoria

Having interviewed Woody and seen and heard firsthand what an inspiration he was, we thought it might be a good idea to see what his parents had to say.

Dan was living in New Zealand by this time so having him as the interviewer was a little bit of a challenge but I was very happy with the final set-up.

When interviewing someone on video it’s important that the interviewee has an eye-line with the interviewer (difficult when they are more than 2,500 kms apart). So my solution was to have Dan call me via a video call on my iPad, and then I used a teleprompter to present Dan’s face to Meg and Patrick, while he asked them questions in real time. It worked! Pretty fancy stuff when you’re sitting in a forest in Daylesford.

Meg and Patrick also run a community bush school in the forest where we filmed. Forest and Free bush school allows young people to play and learn in the natural world under the care and guidance of Meg and Patrick. It was great to capture some of this for the film too.

Meg and Patrick are such grounded, intelligent, beautiful human beings who have added such important perspectives to this film. I am privileged to know them and call them my friends :)

Ps. How remiss of me to not mention that Zero was also present for this interview (seen on Patrick's lap). Although not specifically asked a question, Zero did at times provide responses for the film. I am yet to have these translated but no doubt they are sagacious 🐶

14/10/2023

Su & Woody
2 November 2020

It made perfect sense to interview Su not only for her take on reading landscape but also as an observer of David and his journey over the decades. And what a great interview!

Su has so much life experience, and wisdom flowed from her every response. I listened with a big smile on my face and felt like a plant being watered.

Woody may not have the same amount of life experience but he certainly has a wonderful and intelligent perspective on life and the world around him. When you consider many children these days barely care to go for walk at all (if they can put their handheld device down for one moment…) and yet here’s this boy who knows the country like the back of his hand - where water falls, how to forage for food, fungi types, animal husbandry… what an inspiration for young people everywhere!

Having edited Su’s and David’s interviews and finally Woody’s, a storyline emerged which we hadn’t anticipated, and that is the importance of allowing children to experience the natural world from a young age. It makes sense when you say out loud but it wasn’t initially a focus of the overall story.

But just like Dan’s Living Design Process, sometimes you need the story to direct you, and that’s what I felt was happening here. There was too much gold from Su and Woody to not allow the film to sit with this topic for a period of time.

And so often wise young people learn from their wise parents… but that is a story for another post 😊

13/10/2023

Melliodora
2 November 2020

Many of you would be familiar with Melliodora, the property where David and Su have lived since the mid 1980’s. It is a beautiful semi-rural farmlet with fruit trees and veggie gardens and herb gardens and goats and chickens and geese and a dam and everything permaculture (of course!)

However, this plot of land was a far cry from being a PC paradise when David and Su moved in around 40 years ago. On the surface it was bare, barren and bleak with blackberries and gorse and disturbances from where trenches and pipelines had been dug through. But David saw through all this; he read the landscape and envisioned its true potential, and Melliodora is the living breathing result.

After we interviewed David in August 2020 and I had begun editing the content, it occurred to me that the story of Melliodora was a great case study in the fundamentals of reading landscape, and I wanted to hear from him what his vision was way back then - what he saw with his eyes and with his mind’s eye, and what he hoped it would become.

So we organised a second interview and his responses from this session formed the chapter “Melliodora”, complimented by Su's memories of the time. It is a true testament to how recognising and refining the philosophies and skills of reading landscape will pay off in time.

(BTW This post is NOT brought to you by Mountain Goat Breweries… but it was a particularly warm spring afternoon and the end of three solid days of filming so yes, we did celebrate with some amber bubbles 🍻)

12/10/2023

1 November 2020
Leanganook (Mt Alexander)
Djaara Country, Faraday, Central Victoria

After a couple of big days filming, Dan invited me up to the top of Leanganook to film the sunset, have a beer and enjoy the view. We even lit a little fire as the sun went down.

It was a magical evening: a light breeze made its way through the tall grass as the last rays of sun filtered through the eucalypts, cockatoos made a racket in the valley all around us. It was a real treat.

And then the moon came out.

I’ve honestly never seen anything like it. At first it looked like a hexagon pizza shape biscuit, then it morphed into a cupcake/acorn depending on your point of view, then it developed into a squished moon before finally forming the cheesy moon we know and love.

Dan and I couldn’t believe our eyes, as the running commentary reveals if you want to go back through these posts and have a listen 😄

I’m so glad I got to share this unique experience with Dan, and so grateful I have this photograph to remind me of the wonderful yet all-too-short a time we spent together.

12/10/2023

The Suburban Landscape
Djaara Country
Castlemaine, Central Victoria
31 October 2020

In previous posts I have perhaps been a little unfair on the film’s planning and pre-production, or lack there of. Dan, David and myself did in fact have numerous meetings where documents were typed up on the Who’s, the Why’s and the How’s.

Dan had his own way of planning projects, which many of you are possibly familiar with but it was all new to me. In filmmaking, traditionally there might be pre-production including writing, scripting and storyboarding if necessary, then there’s production where filming takes place, and finally there is the post-production stages of editing and finishing the film.

Going into this project Dan was incorporating planning processes such as Task Cycles, which referenced unknown language to me such as “functional capabilities” and “nested wholes” and “fields of endeavour”. It was all very interesting and beautiful stuff, and I love the way a film can be planned and made using these sorts of tools rather than the traditional methods.

As part of this process we created a list of “Core Project Values” and Number #1 on this list was:

“We emphasise RL as a potentially universal literacy not a limited or professionalized niche”

This was very important to Dan and David, and to bring the point home in the film it was suggested we film David reading a suburban landscape. Many thanks to John Carruthers in Castlemaine for sharing his time and his suburban home with us for filming purposes 🙏

I think the point is that “landscape” is not limited to the rolling hills, forests and waterways of a rural property. If you live in a city environment there are many landscapes which can be read such as your street, backyard, local park, creeks and so on. It’s about slowing down and spending time in these environments, making observations, asking yourself questions and putting forward hypotheses, and getting your hands a little dirty if you can.

So many humans live in urban environments and we are increasingly becoming disconnected from the natural world but it doesn’t have to be that way. Hopefully this film will help inspire the disconnected to find connection again.

11/10/2023

Animation…

"Reading Landscape with David Holmgren" is a chapter-based, feature length documentary film, and there are 12 chapters.

A chapter-based film was never really the plan (refer earlier statements about minimalism in the film-planning stages…) The intended process was:

(1) Film David reading landscape
(2) Interview David
(3) Interview others
(4) Film David reading more landscape
(5) Make film.

It wasn’t until I began the task of cutting together David’s interviews that I realised a loosely told narrative was going to be extremely difficult to string together. Chapters made so much sense, especially for an educational film.

I immediately envisioned animations introducing each chapter; drawings of real people and real scenes that come to life as the chapter title unfolds. I could see it in my mind’s eye but I can’t draw to save myself so animating the film myself was not an option.

So I put the word out amongst my filmmaking peers and was handed a name. This name was connected to a production company and before we knew it, Dan and I were in a production meeting with 4 or 5 people, which ended in a quote amounting to more than half the film budget for 100 seconds of animation.

I’m not suggesting that this is an inappropriate amount for the job, especially in an industry context but the budget just wasn’t going to allow for such a large chunk to go to so little of the film.

So I had a re-think: maybe I could learn how to trace over some film images and animate them… surely there’s software that does this? I found some software and began looking into it when I realised again that such a job is not as simple as just tracing over something. You need to be an artist of sorts - illustrator, graphic designer or similar.

And then it hit me! The woman in the studio next to mine has, in the past, been employed as a graphic designer and an illustrator! I asked her if she would accept the role, she said yes and we began the process.

I should probably mention at this stage that this woman is also my fiancé… 😊

Please allow me to introduce Michaela Pegum - artiste extraordinaire!

Michaela has indeed worked as a graphic designer and illustrator but that is only the beginning. She is also a contemporary dancer, teaches yoga and most recently completed a PhD in Fine Art, and continues to make small sculptures and objects as part of her practice.

I spoke with the team first, to make sure it was acceptable to employ someone “in-house” as it were. Everyone was in favour, so we set about the business of creating 12 animations for the film.

The images for each animation have been chosen because they are relevant to the chapter content. Each animation also includes a garland of flora that hints at plant-life seen in the chapter. I wonder how many people will make the connections?

I am so happy with the results, and have received very positive feedback from the initial preview screenings we’ve had. I believe the animations really add a soft glow to the film, so much so I’ve even considered getting them printed out and framed!

Thank you my love - a job well done! 😘

I hope you all like them as much as I do ☺️

10/10/2023

11 October 2020 - Djaara Country, Sandon, Central Victoria

Sandon is where we really hit our stride making this film. It was a beautiful sunny springtime day, the property was large, diverse and full of interesting aspects and surprises, and our guests Honor, Wren and Amory were extremely lovely and generous with their time.

And there was no time to mess around! We got there around 9AM and I’d only just got a mic on David before we were off and running.

I should point out at this stage that there was very little planning for this film - well, not in a filmmaking sense at least. Perhaps this is often the way with documentaries but certainly we had no plan for this day other than to follow David around the property with a camera and a mic. What we got in fact was the start of the film, the end of the film and a whole bunch of great scenes in between. It couldn’t have been more perfect!

We rambled over grassy fields, walked amongst scattered trees, carved our way through an eroded gold rush gully, and looked out over the surrounding country from the top of the hill.

David and Honor inspected soil and rock types, tree and grass species, considered erosion and leaky weirs, water courses… We were even visited by Bunjil, the wedge-tailed eagle, very high in the sky but low enough to make a cameo in the film :)

David’s knowledge, theories and perspectives flowed and flowed, and I managed to capture most of it. Of course, there is only so much you can fit into a film of this nature but I’m hoping the rest of the material will be made available at a later stage.

Many thanks to Honor and Wren (and Amory), who allowed us to visit two and a half years later to get a couple more pickups. This film would not be the same without your patience and generosity 🙏

09/10/2023

10 October 2020 - The La Gerche Walking Trail, Djaara Country, Creswick, Central Victoria

Without giving you a history lesson, the short story is this: In the late 19th century, John La Gerche worked as a Forester for the Public Works Department, and planted more than 100,000 seedlings in what was a heavily deforested area following the Victorian Goldrush. Many of his trees still survive and in the 1990’s a trail was opened to commemorate his massive achievements. End lesson.

David gets very excited about the La Gerche Walking Trail, and I did too when the sun came out for the first time since we started filming. The forest came alive, as did David’s observations and stories as we walked through this especially unique and spectacular reserve.

When the sun comes out in a forest like this it’s hard not to frame a poor shot. Everything sparkles with soft, dappled light. The ground is soft, the birds are singing, the air is fresh… it feels good to be alive 🌿 We captured some beautiful footage and David shared some particularly relevant insights. A great day for filmmaking!

(Side story: something that almost didn’t make it out alive was my drone. As you will see in the film, beside the reserve is a deforested zone. When I put my drone up to get some aerials of the forest, all was going well until I flew out a little way into the deforested zone. All of a sudden I lost connection with the drone’s camera. It just dropped out with no reason or warning. This had never happened before and has never happened since, and I’ve flown in many different environments. I’m guessing the owners of the farm had electronic jammers installed for this very reason. Fortunately I was able to manually fly it back unharmed and we now have some nice shots to share with you all 😊)

09/10/2023

31st of August 2020 - The first interview with David. Time to get down to brass tacks!

This will always be Dan Palmer’s film. It was his excited vision and it was he who set the wheels in motion.

Dan had witnessed many times and firsthand David’s incredible ability to read the landscape. Not only was he in awe of this but he also recognised the growing importance of sharing the fundamentals of reading landscape with everyone everywhere. And thus the seed of a film was sewn.

I know how to set up an interview with lights and microphones, I know how to film overlay or “B-Roll” footage, and I know how to edit a storyline together. In this instance however, I had no idea what the storyline was. It was Dan who created a list of questions for David and our other interviewees, and it was these responses that formed the storyline and chapters for the film.

Without Dan’s appreciation of David, not only in reading landscape but also as a dear friend, I’m sure this film would not have encompassed the insight, composure and sincerity that it does.

- Dave Meagher
Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor

08/10/2023

I want to celebrate someone who became a very important and special member of the team. His name is Hassan Lahrech.

Hassan has decades of experience in television and film sound, he is a professional drone pilot, he is a student of permaculture but most of all I would describe him as an outstanding human.

Shortly after we threw the Facebook fundraising event in July 2021, Hassan contacted Dan directly offering his services on the film. They had a Zoom meeting and Dan was clearly impressed:

“Met with Hassan this morn. Pretty darn good/synergistic vibes I thought.”

One of Dan’s many Super Powers was the ability to read energy in other human beings, even over an international zoom call :)

Sadly Dan and Hassan didn’t get to work together on the film. After Dan left us, Hassan contacted me directly with even more intent on helping the film become a reality. And before I knew it he was beside me at Melliodora flying drones, recording the early morning birdsong in Hepburn, and chasing “old timers” (David’s words) around forests in Central Victoria with his big fluffy boom and many other sound gadgets.

We even spent a night sleeping in the barn above David and Su’s goats’ quarters. Well, maybe “sleeping” is not entirely accurate - Pipsie the goat made sure of that…

It was difficult continuing to make the film without Dan. I work pretty well on my own but sometimes you need to ask for advice, share an experience or just hear words of encouragement from someone you trust. I could not have wished for a better filmmaking companion than Hassan. Thank you my friend 🙏

Ps. Hassan has recently elevated his drone operating status with some very fancy equipment, software and a head full of technical knowledge allowing him to map a property for contour lines and all sorts of other important information. Geo-referenced orthomosaic projection, Digital Surface Models, Digital Terrain Models, and extracted Contour Lines to be precise - so contact him directly if you need this sort of work done!

07/10/2023

The third filming session took place on the 30th of August 2020, and as we can all painfully recall at this time across the planet we were in the thick of a pandemic.

Here is Melbourne, Victoria we were experiencing lockdowns, curfews, empty supermarkets and designer face masks. We were also especially privileged to receive the “Ring of Steel” - a state government blockade of sorts set up on the outskirts of the city to prevent people from travelling interstate and regional centres. Literal road blocks enforced by police and the military. Crazy times.

As I was living in the city and Dan was in Castlemaine (regional Victoria), this Ring of Steel caper made it difficult to get on with the business of making a film about reading landscape. And it probably would have ceased completely if it wasn’t for one tiny clause in the legal documents, which stated that if production on a film or television show had begun prior to the pandemic, then some rules didn’t apply to industry personnel working on these productions. And most importantly for me, this meant I had the passport papers to get me through the perimeter.

So on the morning of the 30th of August 2020, I found myself stopped at a road block on the Calder Highway about 50kms out of the city, with an Australia Army soldier looking over my papers and checking the interior of my vehicle. To be fair it didn’t take long and he was actually a pretty nice fella and sent me on my way in no time. And so the show went on!

That was a great day for the film and quite a few scenes with David and Dan made the cut (there’s heaps of material that didn’t - not because they weren’t interesting but because a film can only be so long!) There had also been heavy rains in the region and the creek that runs through the gully next to Melliodora had flooded in recent days. All good reading landscape material :)

I have fond memories of this day and for the past 12 months it has been comforting to hear Dan’s voice and his laughter, and to see his cheeky grin every time I sit down to the edit. But how I do miss that man.

06/10/2023

Fast forward nearly 12 months (this film was never destined to be made in a hurry…) and I got the second invite to film David in action.

It was the 3rd of April 2019 and David was teaching an Advanced Permaculture Design Course in and around Melliodora in Djaara Country, Hepburn Victoria. Dan thought this was another good opportunity to film the wizard at work, and indeed it did provide some terrifically apt footage for the film.

Another grey, at times drizzly day but nonetheless we soldiered on and captured some really great learning environment footage.

Perhaps you were one of the students? Are you Matt, Jazz, Pippa, John B, Dan, Belinda, Ebony, Steve, Bianca, Danny, Sonja, Ryan, Debbie, Brenna, Mick, Sandra, Harry, John C, Lizzy, Brett, Laura or Jacob?

Give us a wave if you are!

05/10/2023

I couldn't say where the Reading Landscape journey began for Dan but for me it started here: on the 24th of July 2018.

I’d met Dan a couple of years earlier when asked to film a PDC at Yandoit Farm in Victoria, Australia. For those of you who had met Dan in person, you can’t deny the positive energy that flowed from this man. So when he asked me if I wanted to follow this Holmgren fella around a paddock for a day in Central Victoria and film him “reading the landscape” it was pretty hard to say no.

We’d already struck up a friendship in the past couple of years, meeting for coffee and taking walks around parks in Melbourne’s inner north on chilly wintery days, making big plans for the future involving Permaculture, suburban chook sheds, the Living Design Process and filmmaking. This film was to be the beginning of it all.

Dan was so taken by David’s “reading” ability that he had already begun documenting it on his phone camera during previous site visits. When he realised I had the pro gear, he invited me to film David in action, with no particular outcome in mind.

Although I was new to the Permaculture sphere (still am!), I was eager to learn what it was all about and if Dan said this was where it was at, then as a filmmaker I saw it as a great opportunity to get amongst it.

And that it how I found myself at The Verghese Farm in Djaara Country, Newlyn North at 9:20AM on the 24th of July 2018, on a cold and wet wintery morning, preparing to chase a couple of men around a blue gum forest with a camera and a mic.

And so the journey began.

01/10/2023

Hello everyone

Only two weeks to go until our private screening. Looking forward to meeting some of you on the 15th of October!

I thought you might be interested in seeing stages of the filmmaking process. When the film edit has been completed and signed off to what is called a “picture lock”, the film can be handed over to the colour grader.

Films will be colour graded for a number of reasons. Often the filmmakers want to set a mood, and colour and contrast can be used to help create that mood (alongside other elements such as music/score, and of course acting and direction!)

As this film is an educational documentary, there was no need to create a mood as such - David’s energy generates its own mood :) However, as the film was shot over 5 years on 7 different cameras, across all seasons of the year, colour grading can also help seamlessly draw all these variations together. A cut between two different cameras can be quite jarring if the colours aren’t matched, for example. So for this film, colour grading has been used to smooth out the film visually but also highlight certain elements whilst hide others.

Hope that makes sense :)

The attached photo shows my friend and colleague Keiran Watson-Bonnice behind all his expensive gear in his studio in Djaara Country, Chewton, Central Victoria, Australia. Keiran is a professional colour grader and as a bonus lives in the region where most of the film was shot, which means he knows the true colours to be presented in the film.

Keiran spent more than 5 days working on the film and I was very fortunate to spend the last of these days watching him perform his magic across literally every shot in the film. Thanks for all your great work Keiran!

22/09/2023

Hello everyone,

It’s been a little over 12 months since we lost our dear friend, permie legend and all-round lovely man, Dan Palmer. This film was Dan’s vision from the outset, and it was his buoyant energy and bright enthusiasm that drove the film from being just a couple of fellas with a camera and mic chasing David around fields in Central Victoria, to becoming a feature length documentary, crowdfunded by beautiful people from all over the world. We do miss him terribly.

I apologise for the radio silence - Dan loved sending out fun film updates and he was great at it. I find it difficult to match Dan’s delightful exuberance, and as such I’ve buried myself in the filmmaking process but should have been providing occasional updates for the community. For this I am sorry - you good folk deserve more.

So here is the update!

I am happy to announce that the film is very close to completion and we do in fact have a (private) screening booked for Sunday the 15th of October 2023, at the Theatre Royal in Castlemaine (Victoria, Australia). It will be private in the sense that it will not be open to the general public. If you contributed to the crowdfunding campaign, then hopefully you have received an invite already in the form of an email. If not please email [email protected] and I’ll arrange for the tickets link to be sent your way.

Initially the rewards system allowed for anyone who contributed $15 or more to have initial access to the film. I have discussed this with David and the team and we’d now like to open up the invite to the private screening to all members of this community.

So if you follow this page and are able to attend, please email [email protected] and a link will be sent with details and ticket information. All tickets are free with the option of a donation to go towards screening costs.

Following the private screening the film will also be available to stream but this is yet to be set up.

So stay tuned for more updates over the next couple of weeks. Looking forward to sharing this film with you all.

Dave Meagher
Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor

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Leanganook Moon [Timelapse]

Shapeshifting moon! [Timelapse] What is going on here? 🌛 🧁 🌰 Check out this incredible moon, filmed from the top of Leanganook in Central Victoria on the 15th of October 2020. Or watch the real-time version in the feed below and experience some exceptional commentary 😊 [ ONLY 4 DAYS TO GO!!! To subscribe or support the film project please visit www.readinglandscape.org 🌳 🌳 🌳 ]

Leanganook Moon

Shapeshifting moon! What is going on here? 🌛 🧁 🌰 [ ONLY 4 DAYS TO GO!!! To subscribe or support the film project please visit www.readinglandscape.org 🌳 🌳 🌳 ] Filmed from the top of Leanganook in Central Victoria on the 15th of October 2020. Listen as the production crew come to terms with this incredible moon as it rises above the valley below.

The Importance of Edges

David Holmgren on the importance of edges when reading landscape. For more videos like this or subscribe to or support the larger film project this is part of please visit www.readinglandscape.org 🌳 🌳 🌳

Plant Identification

Plant ID plays a big part in reading landscape. Knowing what that plant is and understanding how and why it came to be there can open up more questions and answers about the world around you. At eight years of age, our mate Woody is already a keen observer of the natural environment. Reading landscape is an activity for all ages!

Reading the Suburban Landscape

At first glance you might see only a patch of curb-side grass... Watch as David reads this tiny stretch of suburban landscape. And remember to subscribe and donate if you can, and support the completion of this film! https://readinglandscape.org/

Landscape as Process

"It's very empowering when you start to see landscape as process." - David Holmgren

Check out this epic tree ! In this video David Holmgren muses on the circumstances that may have led to the creation of such a magnificent structure. Visit the film website www.ReadingLandscape.org to see more videos, subscribe to our newsletter, and support the creation of this film.

David Holmgren on the concept of a "weed"

Weeds can be a thorny topic of discussion - check out David Holmgren's take here. For each week of our current six-week campaign to get this film funded, we're sharing a wee video. Visit the film website to see more videos, subscribe to our newsletter, and donate toward the film's completion!

Reading Landscape with David Holmgren | Fundraiser Video

Thanks to everyone who joined our launch this afternoon. The campaign has officially begun! Please share this with anyone you think might be interested and learn more at www.ReadingLandscape.org --- Video music source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=deliberate+thought Artist: http://incompetech.com/

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