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What Stories Make Worlds
7mins 54seconds, 4K Digital scan of 16mm film (2023)
‘What Stories Make Worlds’ was a 6 month collaboration with Netherton and its community. The Film, Soundtrack, Publication and Poem by Michelle Barrett brought together ideas which explored what is an Archive?
The title and starting point of the project took influce from a passage by Donna Haraway “It matters what we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.”
What secrets does the soil and its critter in Netherton hold? What does the more than human dwellers of Netherton tell us about its history, present and future?
In Collaboration with John, James, Liz, Fiona, Ian Joe and Michelle
Commissioned by Art The Libraries, Sefton Council
Produced by Gregory Herbert and Joe Goff