TY - ADVS

T1 - Les Vestiges

A2 - Birch, Rebecca

A2 - Casey, Sarah

PY - 2024/9/8

Y1 - 2024/9/8

N2 - ‘Les Vestiges’ a short film made by Dr Rebecca Birch (UCL) and Prof. Sarah Casey (Lancaster University) about the precarity of glacial archaeology, explored through Casey's heat-sensitive drawings that react to environmental conditions, amplifying invisible elements that affect the ice and archaeology such as heat, wind, erosion.The film aimed to extend the Emergency! project, by asking how might film be able to communicate the changes taking place in the drawings when exposed to the environment what can film do to extend the meanings in the drawings themselves.The film was shot in Valais and Bern in 2023, including at the archaeological site at the Loetschenpass where artefacts as old as 3000 years have melted out of retreating ice. Narrated using excerpts of interviews with archaeologists Pierre-Yves Nicod and Regula Gubler. Les Vestiges follows Casey’s work with these archaeologists, using synergies between the precarity of drawing , archaeology and the ice in which it has been preserved to reflect on human entanglements in stories of geological and environmental change in high mountain areas.The film was ‘ premiered’ was at 2690m asl at the Loetschenpass Hut, a mountain refuge on the borders of the cantons of Valais and Bern. The Loetschenpass, is one of the most significant sites for glacial archaeology in Switzerland. The screening at Loetschenpass was particularly meaningful for this film about glacial archaeology – as many important finds are made not by archaeologists but by other people in the mountains. If they lie unnoticed they will rapidly disappear forever.The film was initiated during residency during residency at Musée d’art du Valais (2023) and is part of the wider Emergency project. This work was made possible with the support of Loetschenpass Hut, Lancaster University AHRC impact acceleration account, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts. It was subsequently exhibited in From Dawn to Dust at the Henry Moore Institute 4 May - 22 June 2025

AB - ‘Les Vestiges’ a short film made by Dr Rebecca Birch (UCL) and Prof. Sarah Casey (Lancaster University) about the precarity of glacial archaeology, explored through Casey's heat-sensitive drawings that react to environmental conditions, amplifying invisible elements that affect the ice and archaeology such as heat, wind, erosion.The film aimed to extend the Emergency! project, by asking how might film be able to communicate the changes taking place in the drawings when exposed to the environment what can film do to extend the meanings in the drawings themselves.The film was shot in Valais and Bern in 2023, including at the archaeological site at the Loetschenpass where artefacts as old as 3000 years have melted out of retreating ice. Narrated using excerpts of interviews with archaeologists Pierre-Yves Nicod and Regula Gubler. Les Vestiges follows Casey’s work with these archaeologists, using synergies between the precarity of drawing , archaeology and the ice in which it has been preserved to reflect on human entanglements in stories of geological and environmental change in high mountain areas.The film was ‘ premiered’ was at 2690m asl at the Loetschenpass Hut, a mountain refuge on the borders of the cantons of Valais and Bern. The Loetschenpass, is one of the most significant sites for glacial archaeology in Switzerland. The screening at Loetschenpass was particularly meaningful for this film about glacial archaeology – as many important finds are made not by archaeologists but by other people in the mountains. If they lie unnoticed they will rapidly disappear forever.The film was initiated during residency during residency at Musée d’art du Valais (2023) and is part of the wider Emergency project. This work was made possible with the support of Loetschenpass Hut, Lancaster University AHRC impact acceleration account, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts. It was subsequently exhibited in From Dawn to Dust at the Henry Moore Institute 4 May - 22 June 2025

KW - drawing

KW - glacier

KW - archaeology

M3 - Digital or Visual Products

ER -