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Professor Virginia Heath<\/a> has begun an Impact Campaign for her SHRIF funded poetic documentary film, \u2018In The Flame We Reveal Ourselves\u2019.<\/i>\u00a0 Rendered purely through image and music (by\u00a0Afterlands<\/i>), the film is a\u00a0cinematic meditation on the beauty and fragility of nature, our environmental crisis, and the spirit of resistance.\u00a0 Performer and environmental activist, Carina Birrell, brings a powerful, almost sculptural, texture to her profound connection with the Scottish island landscape. \u00a0Her symbolic journey across time and space embodies the complexity of our deep connection to the natural world, our feelings of being overwhelmed in the face of its destruction, and our need for solidarity with others.\u00a0 The evocative music and song lyrics add layers of depth to the visual storytelling, building to a fierce, intuitive call to action: \u2018We can\u2019t let this go without a fight.\u2019<\/div>\n
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Please follow and support our Impact Campaign on Instagram where we are posting clip reels, images and behind the scenes insights into the collaborative creative process:<\/div>\n
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Thanks to: Sheffield Hallam University Research and Innovation Fund,\u00a0 Faction North Ltd, Art Design & Media Research Centre, Sheffield Creative Industries Institute.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Virginia Heath has begun an Impact Campaign for her SHRIF funded poetic documentary film, \u2018In The Flame We Reveal Ourselves\u2019.\u00a0 Rendered purely through image and music (by\u00a0Afterlands), the film is a\u00a0cinematic meditation on the beauty and fragility of nature, our environmental crisis, and the spirit of resistance.\u00a0 Performer and environmental activist, Carina Birrell, brings a powerful, almost sculptural, texture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20701,"featured_media":13544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[1648,1542,431,1541,181,2405,259],"class_list":["post-13543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-admrc","tag-artist-film","tag-documentary","tag-film","tag-headerslider","tag-shrif-funding","tag-virginia-heath"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2025\/07\/In-The-Flame-We-Reveal-Ourselves_Carina-Birrell-with-wind-turbine-and-red-cloth-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1436&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-3wr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11023,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/professor-virginia-heaths-masterclass-on-documentary-film-making-at-fastnet-film-festival-26th-may-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":13543,"position":0},"title":"Professor Virginia Heath’s Masterclass on Documentary Film Making at Fastnet film Festival, 26th May 2022","author":"Phoebe Bolton","date":"23\/05\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Virginia Heath has been invited to present a Masterclass on Documentary Film Making at the Fastnet Film Festival in Ireland on\u00a026th May 2022.\u00a0 The masterclass will focus on the making of Prof Heath\u2019s BAFTA nominated film, From Scotland With Love. 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