Filmed 15/16 October 03 at SO264107.Made in Bleanavon Heritage Town.
Sound recording - 28th/29thFeb 2004

Planned as a 3 mins web movie which could exist in a Landscape database.

The Movie “Fire” features images taken of specialists from Heather Trust, Brecon National Park and CCW creating a heather fire on Mynedd Garn, the hillside above Bleanavon. The controlled burning is used to regenerate and rebalance growth of three types of plants and are featured in the Landmap Data base in the biodiversity layer.

Conceived / Filmed / Edited by Glenn Davidson
Sound recording Keith Munro
Sound edit Tom Owen

From the Landmap database socio economic and biodiversity layers were used.

This exercise: finding new creative uses for data.

This film was an attempt to bring two different points in a map containing different types of data together to see if spontaneous or none designed meaning could emerge. The idea that latent meaning might lie between unconnected parts of a database. The burning of heather is edited in equal measure (A/B cut) with sound samples taken from Bleanavon Town reflecting the socio economic data in Landmap.

Humberto Maturana and F. J. Varela -
Autopoiesis is both a concept about self-maintaining systems, especially biological ones, and an epistemological theory about cognition and self-reference.