Leicestershire UK
Sheffield, UK
Lush green pastures rich in red clover provide nourishing grazing grounds for sheep and cows on Oliver Lee’s farm. Oli jumps in his buggy with working dogs Tim, Meg and Sally to grapple with the daily manual work of rotational grazing – regularly moving livestock to allow fields to replenish without synthetic fertilisers. Immersing us in a work-life where farming meets conservation, ‘Rotational’ shares an intimate experience of agricultural labour through the coordination of human, animal, and technological realms in a living landscape. Despite the many ecological and health benefits for livestock, wildlife, and soils – is this demanding workload viable for family farms like Oli’s?
This film sets out to portray the intimate experience of the labour involved in rotational grazing through the coordination of human, animal, and technological realms in a living landscape. Secondly, the way in which the new agricultural policy in England, the Environmental Land Management (ELM), takes shape at a farm level.