LOST FOR WORDS is inspired by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane's The Lost Words book, created in response to 50 nature words being taken out of the Oxford Youth Dictionary in 2007, such as raven, magpie, otter, adder, acorn... This best seller has had a vast and unexpected impact and was distributed to schools across the UK, adapted for the theatre and even recomposed into music. It is a growing phenomenon that continues to expand worldwide by raising one main question that we, too, reflect on in our documentary: How can we preserve what we can no longer name?
This choral documentary gives a voice to children, scientists, artists, the elderly... leading us through the seasons and also letting nature speak for itself as we are brought to question our anthropocentric perspective.
Selected at CPH:DOX, FIFA, Biografilm, AFO, Ischia Film Festival and Sheffield Docfest 2025. You can see more on the official website lostforwords.fr
Produced by Pyroclast & Hopscotch
LOST
FOR
WORDS
(teaser)
AN INSTANT
OF
NON-EXISTENCE
(teaser)
A work in Progress Feature Documentary
Hannah has been returning for over 10 years to Backi Petrovec, A Slovak village in Serbia to meet with a theatre community there and talk about identity. This documentary Hannah returns for the last time to create a show called Belonging, where Kinez, Marina, local actors, get up on stage with her to explore their sense of self and their biggest obstacles as they dive into their thirties.
Extra Short Experimental Film
Eco-feminist manifesto about the human body and the more-than-human.
JUST LISTEN
TO THE STORM
THE COLLECTOR
AND THE TAMER
OF THE WIND
Short experimental documentary
Psycho-social exploration on la Costa Brava in Spain.
Extra short experimental film
Visual poem on feminine depression and social distancing
Winner of AltFF and New York Flash Film Festval in 2021
VEGETATIVE
VU D'ICI ! // ALLER VOIR AILLEURS
Collection of promotional videos
For a solo video and photographic exhibition 'Vu d'ici ! // Aller Voir Ailleurs'
in Les Muséales of Tourouvre au Perche
Exhibited from the 19th of Septembre until the 31rst pf December 2020
'VU D'ICI... '
Short Experimental documentary
Documenting the repeated workshops of dancers Nicolas Maurel and Mélanie Marie (AMA) in a centre for people with different abilities in Le Perche (France). This is part of a much larger project of reunification of the Normandy territory.
With the participation of the residents of La Corne d'Or in Randonnai and the primary schools of Randonnai and Longny-au-Perche.