ELINA BRY

WORK
Is The Earth Chronically Ill?
TEASER 00:01:10
Multilingual 
Experimental 
Film (2025)
00:53:00


Scotland
Finland
France

2023-2025 The film delves into the intertwined crises of climate change and chronic illness, drawing connections across three landscapes that hold personal significance: Scotland, Finland, and France. A central question underpins the work: Is the Earth itself chronically ill? Through reflections on my own experience of chronic illness, I explore how ecological fragility mirrors human vulnerability, endurance, and adaptation.

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This piece offers a meditation on the climate crisis and chronic illness, journeying through three countries and the changing seasons. Blending poetry, satire, and science, it creates a space for quiet contemplation, inviting us to recognise our gestures towards ourselves and nature as acts of care. The film follows a solitary character as they engage intimately with their environment, listening to sounds from mountain peaks to lake depths. Their movements echo the tenderness of human connection, though they share it with ferns, water, and an unseen audience, embodying a reverence for the natural world.


Language: Finnish, English and French 


Research funded by Creative Scotland Open Fund 2023-2024



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Creative Degrowth Scotland ELINA BRY is French/Finnish, Glasgow based multidisciplinary artist and award-winning filmmaker. They work across video, storytelling and live performance, and is interested at listening to and re-staging the malfunctions of the human body. They are curious about the body as a sentient arena; as a responsive tool and as a protagonist of an everyday drama. By that, they investigate the known, model it and work in collaboration with the instability of their body. It is essential that they don't cause any harm as they want to challenge their body with the everyday, in order to give a stage and witness what is already there.
The thematic undercurrents of ecology and slow travel prominently weave through their artistic endeavours. Through their multidisciplinary approach, they seek to unravel the nuanced interplay between the human form and its environment, exploring the intricacies of the body while maintaining a conscientious connection to ecological and sustainable principles.