A poetic journey through Scotland’s wild places, where Kenneth White’s geopoetics, artists, geologists and James Hutton’s deep time help us rediscover how to think with the Earth.
How do we learn to think with the Earth?
Glenda Rome’s debut feature journeys through Scotland’s coastlines, forests, islands and ancient rock formations in search of geopoetics: the philosophy developed by Scottish poet-thinker Kenneth White, connecting language, landscape, geology and the living world. Through artists, writers and geologists shaped by White’s work, the film becomes less a biography than a quiet act of attention.
Alongside White’s legacy, Expressing the Earth explores the discoveries of James Hutton, the Scottish geologist whose theories of deep time transformed how we understand the planet’s history. In 2026, the 300th anniversary of Hutton’s birth, that perspective feels especially resonant: a reminder that human lives unfold within vast, ancient, living systems.
Film Details
Country: Scotland, UK
Year: 2025
Running time: 78 minutes
Language: English
Rating: NC 12A
Distributor: Glenda Rome
Screened at LandxSea
LandxSea Film Festival 2026
11 September 2026 · Montrose Playhouse
Special guest: Director Glenda Rome
About the Filmmaker
Glenda Rome
Glenda Rome is a Scottish filmmaker whose work bridges art, environmental and human connection. For over two decades she's worked internationally on documentaries and community projects - collaborating with Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian rainforest and Iñupiat people in Alaska, and helping young and underrepresented voices tell their own stories on film. Now based near Edinburgh, her debut feature Expressing the Earth turns her lens inward: a poetic exploration of Scotland's landscapes, geopoetics, and the living relationship between people and place.