Songs Of Earth (Margreth Olin)

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in response to hannah

looking for movies / documentaries / short films that make you feel awe about nature and/or human creativity (something in the same vein as the Emergence Magazine short films - I rec those if you haven't watched) - about place or process and wonder!

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It’s called a visual and auditory poem. Director Margreth Olin documents a year with her octogenarian parents at their ancestral village home in glacial Norway. Words cannot describe the natural and human expanse of this film.

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A Rose

@aroseOct 24, 2026

I will look for this! Brings to mind a favorite book, The Place of Tides by James Rebanks about the “duck women” in Norway who collect eiderdown from eider nest boxes they tend every season.

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