Join us for a free screening of Forest and Frequency, shown for the first time since it was developed for the ground-breaking FOREST exhibition, which opened in May 2025 at Nottingham Castle.
Forest and Frequency is a series of four films by documentary maker Georgianna Scurfield that follow the Major Oak, artist Caroline Locke, and researchers from the University of Nottingham over the year in the lead-up to this exhibition.
Divided into four chapters to reflect the changing seasons, the film centres the Major Oak. It begins in summer 2024 as Locke works with University of Nottingham engineers to record the tree's natural frequency using state-of-the-art technology to scan and record specific data points. Subsequent films show the independent journeys of that data, both in the studio to inform Locke’s artistic work and on campus to create a 3D model from which researchers can calculate the vibration of the tree as it sways in the wind.
On return visits to Sherwood Forest, we are also introduced to researchers from different academic disciplines who share their insights and relationships with woodland ecosystems. Through conversations held in the forest, creative thinking and knowledge exchange, we see art, science and historical research intertwined in response to the presence of a single, ancient tree.
At this event, attendees will have the opportunity to see the film in its entirety for the first time and also ask questions of the artists, academics and professional staff that created the project to bring the mysteries of Sherwood Forest to life.
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