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Project short description

"Telescope" is an ethnographic film exploring memory, community resilience, and multispecies relationships along the rapidly eroding Telescope Beach in Grenada. Through collaborative filmmaking, this film documents how community members defend their shoreline against the impacts of climate change.

Project long description

The coastal community of Grenville, Grenada are facing the rapidly worsening impacts of climate change, which threaten their homes and livelihoods. "Telescope" is a multimodal ethnographic film which uses collaborative storytelling to explore memories and imagined futures of Telescope Beach. Through documenting coastal conservation efforts with local community members-- including fishers, farmers, and marine biologists-- this film navigates environmental loss, colonial legacies, and more-than-human coastal resilience in the face of global climate change.

This film was created over four months of field work as part of the director's MA dissertation in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, and was made possible through the generous contributions of local collaborators, Anthony Joseph, Naomi Andrews, and Olando Harvey. "Telescope" examines how coral gardening projects, mangrove restoration, and local histories work together to shape multispecies relatedness in coastal ecosystems. Combining observational footage of the eroding shoreline with collaboratively produced scenes of community members, the film prompts insights into local experiences of climate change, and creates nuanced portraits of more-than-human ecopolitical sovereignty. The film is in editing stages and seeks to refine a balance between the observational and experimental techniques, integrating local testimony with sensory immersion, in preparation for future festival submissions.