The ubiquity of phones and low-cost editing software has made film and video common modes of documenting our lives. For planners, designers, and preservationists, landscape documentation through film provides evidence, a means of participation, unearths hidden wrongs, and justifies public action to an expansive audience. Filmmaking can also serve as a way of teaching future designers how to interpret a place, understand its relationship to human impact, and tell stories. For preservationists, cultural landscape film documentation establishes significance, timelines, physical integrity, meaning, and stewardship knowledge.
The Landscapes on Film two-day event offers the public, designers, planners, emerging filmmakers, and descendant communities an opportunity to engage with filmmakers about how to optimize the film medium to make visible endangered African American stewards and their cultural landscapes. The screened films creatively document and amplify Black descendant lands and stewardship practices throughout the US and Canada, with a special spotlight on Vinegar Hill in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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