The world premiere of our feature documentary film Expressing the Earth took place on Saturday 20 September at Sea Change Film Festival on the Isle of Tiree. Followed by a Q&A with its Director Glenda Rome and its Producer Norman Bissell. Glenda Rome won Best Director at the Stratford on Avon Film Festival in August where it was also shortlisted for Best Documentary Film. It went on to win Best Documentary Feature Film at the New Renaissance Film Festival in London in September 2025. It was also selected for the Docuworld Film Festival in October again in London. The film was crowdfunded by the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics based on the Isle of Luing in Argyll and was sponsored by RSK environmental consultancy, the Geological Association and Edinburgh Geological Society. It was also supported by the Culture Heritage and Arts Assembly, Argyll and Isles (CHARTS).
It explores geopoetics as the creative expression of the Earth through the eyes of painters, geologists, a slate mosaic sculptor, a dancer/choreographer, a musician/composer and an island author in stunning locations on the west and east coasts of Scotland. In doing so its beautiful cinematography also reveals the captivating poetry of the Scottish writer and thinker Kenneth White who was born in Glasgow, grew up in Fairlie in Ayrshire and lived much of his life in France. Director Glenda Rome said, ‘I’ve made lots of short films but this is my first feature documentary film and it’s wonderful that it’s been so well received by four different film festivals. I’m really looking forward to going to Tiree for its world premiere and thereafter to its screening all over Scotland and beyond.’ Producer Norman Bissell said, ‘ It’s very fitting that our film is being premiered on another Argyll island since much of it was shot here on the slate Isle of Luing where the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics has its base. I believe that it will inspire those who watch it to a greater understanding of geopoetics which offers society as a whole a better way of living on the planet.’
