Edinburgh Napier University

  Time and the Seashell (Kii Nche Ndutsa) is a digital practice-based research output consisting of a short experimental film and is the result of investigations conducted by the film director Itandehui Jansen and the screenwriter Armando Bautista García. The short film was filmed in Mexico and has a poetic voice off in Mixtec (Indigenous language from Mexico). It has been subtitled to Spanish and English. The research project explores how Indigenous Cinema aesthetics can inspire different representations of a changing natural and cultural landscape due to climate change. Through an approach combining ethnography, narrative storytelling and observational documentary, this experimental film explores alternative cinematic representations that cultivate aesthetic experience and an affective relation with the land and the sea. The project furthermore employs an approach to film production which has a lower carbon footprint by filming with reduced equipment and minimal crew.