Deep Time - 3 films for BBC
It was a thrill to work with my old colleague Richard Fisher on this 3 part series of films about Deep Time for the BBC. The unfathomable age of the Earth has always fascinated me and we hoped to instil these films with a sense of wonder. The first film has had (at the time of writing) over 700,000 views on the BBC News YouTube feed - not bad for a little film about a bunch of rocks!
Scroll down to watch the 3 films….
the Man who discovered the Abyss of Time.
CREDITS
Presenter & Writer - Richard Fisher
Camera, Edit & Graphics - Adam Proctor
Producer - Richard FIsher & Adam Proctor
“You can put your finger on the gap where 60 Million Years passed without any trace being recorded.”
The first of three short films I made for the BBC about deep time - in which we visit Siccar Point, a place of huge significance to geology, not to mention our understanding of long-term time.
2. the Art of thinking in Deep Time.
CREDITS
Presenter & Writer - Richard Fisher
Camera, Edit & Graphics - Adam Proctor
Producer - Richard FIsher & Adam Proctor
“… our lives on this Earth are so brief - like the flash of sunlight on the surface of an ocean.”
FIlm 2 is a profile of the artist Katie Paterson featuring her Future Library - which contains books that won't be read until 2114 - and Requiem - a room that contains all of Earth's history: 370 vials of crushed powder, each 21g, from ancient fossils to a tree branch from Hiroshima.
3. the people from the 22nd Century living among us.
CREDITS
Presenter & Writer - Richard Fisher
Camera, Edit & Graphics - Adam Proctor
Producer - Richard FIsher & Adam Proctor
Film 3 of our BBC deep time series explores how our generational ties stretch far further across time than first appears.