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AS OLD AS THE HILLS

Selena S. Kuzman’s film As Old As the Hills is a groundbreaking visualisation of the enormity of the time-scale of geological change, over tens and hundreds of millions of years, in the setting of the north of Scotland. Geologist Adrian Hall is joined by Mara Gibb from Caithness and Katy Firth from Orkney on a grand scenic journey. Their vistas rise to Scaraben, the ancient island mountain, and over the tors on Smean, touching some of the oldest rock surfaces in the British Isles. They see in contrast the young, dynamic sand hills at Dunnet Bay. They cross the Pentland Firth to Stromness and Brinkie’s Brae, a granite stump of the once mighty Caledonian mountain chain. On Shapinsay they find pristine Devonian lava flows and boulder clay streamlined by the passage of the last ice sheet, and they look at it more closely through some of the rock slides in the Ted Kellock collection in Stromness Museum. And all through their travels they seek out fresh ways to visualise the vast expanse of geological time, in which mountains rise and fall and land and sea are in continual slow change, a concept first developed by James Hutton, the 300th anniversary of whose birth will be celebrated in 2026. The images of time in the film range from a stretch of the A9 from Helmsdale to the red sandstone height of St Magnus Cathedral, where the travellers are welcomed by Orkney storyteller Tom Muir. Following its premiere at this year's festival, this is the first showing of the film which was made possible through funding from EventScotland.