As part of RIN's (Residence -In -Nature) summer programme in Sweden, Småland, I have been invited to screen my film Astral Women, filmed at a nearby nature reserve, an island off the east coast shore, The Blue Maiden.

This island has for 1000's of years captured mans awe and has produced many different mythologies of fear and desire. It is still holding a strong grip of superstition and its known that taking stones from this place, is said to produce bad luck. The film is an art film, embracing these different legends throughout time, and focusses on the strongest myth of a 'witch island'.
In the film we hear an interview with a local historian who describes the short period of the island as a quarry. This is mixed with the action of three women played by a local actor / comedian Siw Carlsson, also my aunt and my cousin and cousins daughter. They reference the myth of the three witches through three generations, like the Macbeth witches. They have one purpose in the film and that is the return of the taken stones (real stones that people have sent back due to bad luck) where the spell gets lifted by a particular walk in the labyrinth, a real labyrinth from 1790's when it was first discovered by Carl Von Linné, known by the epithet "father of modern taxonomy". The film is also interested in using ideas around alchemy, magic and science as a performative action, putting superstition and capitalism alongside each other to question the technological progression by imbuing something magical and ultimately female old knowledge. It embraces the un-forgetting of what we are so closely part of- the earth.
http://residence-in-nature.se/project/residence-in-nature/#57487e9d71718