Ghost SpeciesMilkwood Productions
Milkwood was commissioned by Granta to make a short film about Robert Macfarlane's piece 'Ghost Species'. The film plays on 'Granta Online'.
Macfarlane's piece centres on a man called Eric Wortley: "I was fascinated by the idea of an English aboriginal," Macfarlane explains...
"Eric has exceptional kinds of local knowledge.He knows the water tables, the weather habits and the wind histories of every part of his parish. He holds in his head a detailed memory map of the surrounding landscape. He has walked, ridden and ploughed every foot of his land countless times, and watched its changes through decades as well as seasons. He knows the stories of the inhabitants, living and dead, and the species of bird and animal that have thrived or failed here throughout the twentieth century. And he has no interest in questions about the land that can be answered in the abstract."
- Robert Macfarlane, Ghost Species, GRANTA 102.
