Walking to Connect
Screening: Beacon,
Alchemy Film Festival,
Scottish Mental Health Festival,
received Community Award
Film
00:14:47
Greenock, Scotland
2022Walking to Connect is a collaborative film created during a three-month residency with Your Voice Recovery participants, rooted in engaged, participatory practice. It applies the theory of walking not simply as a means of commuting, but as a tool for connection—between people, place, memory, and body. Through nature walks and hill walks, participants explored walking as performance, creating memory maps guided by muscle memory and shared stories embedded in familiar paths. The process foregrounded embodied filmmaking: phones taped to shoes, bodies used as tripods, and fishing rods transformed into tools for sound exploration, including conversations with Clyde fishing hobbyists. These experimental techniques invited new perspectives—what do our feet see? What does our back witness when we aren't looking? The film invites viewers into these layered, embodied experiences, where memory, movement, and recovery intersect. Celebrated for its originality and sensitivity, Walking to Connect received the Community Award at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, recognising its powerful contribution to collective healing through creative practice.
https://www.yourvoice.org.uk/creative-recovery-inverclyde
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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.