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Nick Jordan
Translocations | 14.44 mins. | 2025 | HD Video

Centred on sphagnum moss, Translocations highlights the mutual aid and reciprocal exchange that exists between species in the restoration of a lowland peatbog. Featuring the voice of botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer, and a tactile soundtrack score, the film documents the human and more-than-human life, energies and actions that are transforming an intensively farmed and damaged terrestrial environment back into a flourishing wetland habitat. The film is structured around volunteers moving ('translocating') gathered balls of sphagnum moss from replete to deplete areas of the bog, enabling a keystone species in peat formation and carbon sequestration to thrive and rejuvenate a vital part of the biosphere.

Exploring the luminous and vivid characteristics of this rewilded, transitional terrain, the film depicts the abundance of re-introduced sphagnum moss and the dynamic mosaic of co-dependent species that are now thriving both above and below the surface of the bog, from flowering cotton grasses and carnivorous sundews to dragonflies and silk-moths.

A film by Nick Jordan
Soundtrack score by Otis Jordan
Voice: Robin Wall Kimmerer, from podcast On Being with Krista Tippett

With thanks to:
All staff and volunteers at Lancashire Wildlife Trust; Robin Wall Kimmerer; Andrea Prevost and Krista Tippett at the On Being Project

Made with the support of The University of Manchester

Translocations / trailer

 

 

 

Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise. It is relationship that will endure and relationship that will sustain the restored land. Therefore, reconnecting people and the landscape is as essential as re-establishing proper hydrology or cleaning up contaminants. It is medicine for the earth.
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, ‘Braiding Sweetgrass