WEST SIDE CINEMA: UNDERLAND (12A)
Voyage into worlds rarely glimpsed by human eyes. Underland, based on the bestselling book by Robert Macfarlane, is a cinematic documentary exploring the territory beneath our feet.
It starts in the shallow soils beneath an old ash tree – and we journey into ancient sacred caves, flooded storm drains, melting glaciers, underwater burial chambers … and into a deep underground laboratory built to solve the mysteries of the Universe.
Narrated by Oscar-nominated Sandra Hüller, Underland is a deep dive into the Earth that provides a powerful and poetic vision for looking afresh on our lives on the planet’s surface.
Here is a link to the trailer.
BBFC rating: implied strong language
Doors open 7:15 for a 7:45 start
£5 full price / £3 Student and Young Scot, cash only on the door.
Bring your own refreshments and cold snacks
“We know so little of the worlds beneath our feet. Look up on a cloudless night and you might see the light from a star thousands of trillions of miles away, or pick out the craters left by asteroid strikes on the moon’s face. Look down and your sight stops at topsoil, tarmac, toe. I have rarely felt as far from the human realm as when only ten yards below it, caught in the shining jaws of a limestone bedding plane first formed on the floor of an ancient sea.”
– Robert Macfarlane, Underland
“To understand light you need first to have been buried in the deep-down dark.”
– Robert Macfarlane, Underland
