SEE THE FOREST
At easter 2022, I joined a gaggle of wonderful creative types camping in takayna/Tarkine in the middle of ancient rainforest. This was an annual artists’ camp organized by the Bob Brown Foundation who have been fighting for years to protect this forest from logging and mining pursuits.
We were near the site of a proposed tailings dam that MMG mine would like to build…to transform an ancient forest to a irreversible scar of toxic waste.
Unimaginable!
All the percussion in this song is recorded in the forest - by tapping old logs, shaking ferns and leaves, etc along to a click track.
Written, performed and recorded by Rose Turtle Ertler
Spoken word by Jenny Weber - Campaign Manager at Bob Brown Foundation
Chanting by tree climbers/protestors standing ground in takayna
More information about the takayna campaign here:
bobbrown.org.au/campaigns/takayna/
There is a video for this song by Anna Brozek with lots of amazing footage from Bob Brown Foundation videographers.
LET ME KNOW IF YOU’D LIKE TO SCREEN THIS FILM AT ANY EVENTS OF FILM NIGHTS. Contact:
roseturtle@gmail.com
released July 4, 2023