An experimental and beautiful 16mm film about an organic Italian farm, where soil, weeds, and microbes leave their mark on both the fields and the film itself.

On an organic farm in Italy, people live side by side with nature and its plants, animals, insects, microbes, and weeds. They do so while industrial agriculture has depleted the soil for decades and sent the planet’s biodiversity into free fall. But the farm and its farmers are now trying to rethink agriculture as a place where species can coexist rather than exterminate each other, and where overlooked weeds come to the rescue.

‘Errabonda’ is a wonderfully beautiful and experimental observation of Italian agriculture and a sensory exploration of the intricate and interdependent relationships that exist between soil, plants, and people. A film that blurs the line between images and ecology by inviting organic materials into the image-making process through plant-based chemistry and by allowing the plants to be in direct contact with the film’s 16mm strip.

Cast & Crew
Producer: Emma Harris
Director: Emma Harris
Script: Emma Harris
Director of Photography: Emma Harris
Music: Tomás Gubbins
Sound: Emma Harris & Andreas Hayden
Editing: Emma Harris

Emma Harris
Emma Harris is a visual anthropologist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She graduated with an MA in Visual Anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at University of Manchester in 2019 and a MSc in Social Anthropology with visual media from University of Copenhagen. Her work has been shown in places such as CPH:DOX (DK), Ars Electronica (AU) and Old Munch (NO).

Filmography
Praxi (2017), Thangam (2018), El Ave Enjaulado (2018), Words of Wanderers (2019), Ser Palmera (2024), I think we begin as light (2025).