Toil and Trouble
Directed and Edited by Alana Bartol
All Drawings by Alana Bartol
A witch’s cauldron bubbles. Amidst swirling smoke, images of invasive plants, including Yellow Flag Iris, Himalayan Blackberry, and Scotch Broom, materialize. An industrial scream from a mine in ‘care and maintenance’ reverberates in the forest.
Charcoal drawings of native plants to the unceded traditional territory of the Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ people dissolve and re-form as if by magic, speaking to the intelligence of plants, cycles of growth, and regeneration.
This video includes charcoal drawings by the artist on water-soluble paper. It also includes a photograph and sound recording of a surface air blower at Quinsam Coal Mine near Campbell River.
Sound Credits:
“Backgrounds - Coal Mine Drag Line Inside Mine With Coal Car” Stock media by Soundideas1/Pond5
“Canary, Constant, Chirping, Singing, Tweeting, Fast Clicking Chitters” Stock media by ProSoundEffects/Pond5
“Deep Low Freq Drone” Stock media by Cryptowista/Pond5
“Gloomy Underwater Atmosphere” Stock media by soundpros/Pond5
“Ghostly Drone Rumble And Haunted Presence” Stock media by TsunamiSoundscape/Pond5
“Magic Potion, Witch Cauldron, Bubbling” Stock media by GfxSoundsStudios/Pond5
“Natural Wind” Stock Media by Tosca66 / Pond5
“Sci Fi, Space Ship - Cargo Bay Ambience: Low Slow Throbbing Rumble” Stock media by DanielSound/Pond5
“Sea Underwater Sound Loop” Stock media by FxProSound/Pond5
"Soft Wind" Stock media by florianreichelt/FreeSound, licensed under CC0 1.0
“Spooky Wind Tone, Eerie Hollow Moaning, Howling, Light Rumbly Gusts” Stock media by ProSoundEffects/Pond5
“Sub Explosion 5” Stock media by MellauSFX/Pond5
“Wind Light” Stock media by steter/Pond5
“Wind whistle” Stock media by Felix Blume/FreeSound, licensed under CC0 1.0