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In Taiga, the Finland-based media artist Leena Lehti crafts a visceral ‘elegy’ to the boreal forests of her region. Created by Lehti without the use of a camera, the piece pairs animations of regional flora and fauna scratched by hand directly onto 16 mm film with imagery of real moss and plants collected from subarctic Finland, where warming temperatures have begun to transform the biome from a taiga into a temperate forest. Hauntingly beautiful, the resulting work forms an unusually direct and visceral commentary on the climate crisis.
Director: Leena Lehti
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Oceans and water
A stunning visualisation explores the intricate circulatory system of our oceans
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Art
When East met West in the images of an overlooked, original photographer
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Meaning and the good life
Why Orwell urged his readers to celebrate the spring, cynics be damned
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Nature and landscape
California’s landscapes provide endless inspiration for a woodcut printmaker
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Engineering
Can monumental ‘ice stupas’ help remote Himalayan villages survive?
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Animals and humans
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Stories and literature
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Art
Background music was the radical invention of a trailblazing composer
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Biology
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