Filmmaker Jeanna Kolesova @jeannakolesova.bsky.social made a moving speculative documentary about peat & peatlands in the USSR, drawing, in part, on stories from my 🔥Burning Swamps🔥. The trailer & stills give you a sense of what I struggled to convey in writing 👉 jeannakolesova.com/in-zombie-fire

The #Soviet vision of seamless transformation – e.g., converting peatlands into energy sources and arable land, and people into compliant laborers – was largely realized but left behind traces of persistent violence, as @jeannakolesova.bsky.social argues: berlinergazette.de/witnesses-or... #climate

With great and swampy joy 🌿 we launch WETBEINGS / Aukštumala – Peatland Organisms, Stories & Troubles! Join our Spring Online Meeting on 26 April. Info: sensingpeat.net/projects/wetbeings @re-peat.bsky.social #VeniceAgreement #PeatlandsMatter @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social

Still at the beginning of research, but definitely coming somewhere. Plan is to finish one short film this year.

Wetlands in Siberia, in Iraq, and in my imagination

Von Anfang März bis Ende Mai ist Jeanna Kolesova, Künstler:in, Filmemacher:in und Forscher:in, Stipendiat:in der Sparte #BildendeKunst in #SchlossWiepersdorf. Herzlich willkommen 🎉! Mehr Informationen: www.schloss-wiepersdorf.de/de/stipendia... #fellowship #Stipendium #Art

Happy to be here from March till May

in search of former peat mines, you can find current military training grounds

Peat, central to Soviet industrialization, was framed as a tool of progress, justifying ecological destruction and labor exploitation. My, quite long essay, explores practical and symbolic role assigned to peat in the Soviet energy production. jeannakolesova.com/on-created-w...