{"id":675804,"date":"2025-06-18T12:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lost-for-words-is-a-hopeful-cinematic-journey-through-nature-and-its-reduced-vocabulary-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:05:45","slug":"lost-for-words-is-a-hopeful-cinematic-journey-through-nature-and-its-reduced-vocabulary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lost-for-words-is-a-hopeful-cinematic-journey-through-nature-and-its-reduced-vocabulary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lost for Words\u2019 Is a Hopeful Cinematic Journey Through Nature and Its Reduced Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter revisions to the\u00a0Oxford Junior Dictionary, a widely used children\u2019s dictionary, led to the removal of such nature words as \u201cacorn,\u201d \u201cbluebell\u201d and \u201cotter\u201d in favor of such <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>-centric words as \u201cattachment,\u201d \u201cbroadband,\u201d and \u201cvoice-mail,\u201d writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris reacted with their book\u00a0<em>The Lost Words<\/em>: <em>A Spell Book<\/em>\u00a0(2017). It helped to create a broader discussion and protest about the loss of nature itself, along with a celebration of creatures and plants that share the planet with humans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHannah Papacek Harper\u2019s feature directorial debut, <em>Lost for Words<\/em>, which she also wrote and which is getting its U.K. premiere at Sheffield DocFest on Saturday, was inspired by the book. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe documentary, which world premiered at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, features cinematography by Tess Barthes and editing by Becky Manson. It is a rare visual, audio, and musical experience that takes audiences on a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> through nature and thought. \u201cThis poetic journey through language and landscape explores how reconnecting with nature\u2019s vanishing vocabulary can help us reimagine our future with hope,\u201d notes a Sheffield DocFest synopsis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPapacek Harper and R\u00e9troviseur Productions are handling sales on the project. Watch the trailer for<em> Lost for Words <\/em>below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LOST FOR WORDS (feature doc) - TRAILER\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/880431409?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"209\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter completing an undergraduate program in film at La Sorbonne Panth\u00e9on in Paris, Papacek Harper earned a degree in Audiovisual Communication at the University of Lima, Peru, and now works in film and what she calls \u201csensitive cartography.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201c<em>Lost for Words<\/em> was born from a desire to connect, understand, and feel nature in a creative way,\u201d she says in a director\u2019s statement. \u201cI wanted to find that childhood wonder that can make engaged action beautiful again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe inspiration for the movie came during the COVID pandemic and its lockdowns. \u201cI was lucky enough to be able to exile myself at my parents\u2019 where I grew up in the French countryside, and I created a bit of a ritual for myself to maintain connection and order,\u201d the writer-director recalls. There, she listed to Matthew Bannister\u2019s podcast \u201cFolk on Foot,\u201d in which he meets folk musicians throughout the U.K., takes them on walks, discusses music, and then has them make music. One of the shows included Jackie Morris, the aforementioned illustrator of <em>The Lost Words<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cSo I started reading it,\u201d Papacek Harper tells <em>THR<\/em>. \u201cAnd they did an online live festival to raise money for all the artists who couldn\u2019t work during lockdown. One of the things that they put up during the festival was Jackie Morris doing one of her live drawings of otters while doing an incantation from the book. I was on a really long walk through the countryside, and I just started bawling, because there was something about how all these things intersected within that moment.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThat was the first inspiration for the film, along with the basic idea that \u201cif you cannot name something, you cannot care for it,\u201d she shares. \u201cThere was really something much more tender that we are missing from a lot of the work we try to bring to people about the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThat is why the film mentions some shocking information about humans\u2019 impact on nature, but the filmmaker doesn\u2019t confront viewers with too much data. In her conversations with scientists, \u201cit was clear that there was a thirst for them to find new ways to bring their data to the public, because it\u2019s very clear that we\u2019ve gotten past the breaking point,\u201d Papacek Harper explains. \u201cWe\u2019ve had the figures for a very long time, but how do we emotionally engage with the public so that they feel that they are tied into those figures? So I didn\u2019t want to overwhelm them with information about the environment. In the end, you can feel that we\u2019re over-informed, but what we don\u2019t necessarily have is that empathetic engagement.\u201d That\u2019s where she saw a key role for the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHer and fellow filmmakers strive \u201cto make empathetic tools in a world where empathy is decreasing daily,\u201d Papacek Harper says, pointing out two forms of empathy. \u201cThere\u2019s the im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te emotional empathy, and then there\u2019s cognitive empathy. Cognitive empathy really demands that you engage with a subject,\u201d she explains. \u201cAnd to allow people to engage with the subject, it is important to rely on emotional connection and poetry touching them throughout the film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe movie also acknowledges that there is a climate crisis, but tries to avoid having viewers frozen with fear. \u201cWe need to take into account the crisis. We can\u2019t put it aside, but I was looking for a way for us to step out of that space,\u201d Papacek Harper says. \u201cIt nourishes climate anxiety, as opposed to putting people in a position from which they can act. So the film is geared towards the idea that by putting people in a place where they fear, but they also feel that they\u2019re in a connected space with the natural world and the human world, and with each other, they can act for the climate and with the climate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMusic and sound play a key role in <em>Lost for Words<\/em>. Composer Leonie Floret and sound from Julie Marechal, Florian Vourlat, Kirstie Howell, Cassandra Rutledge, Heather Andrews, and Zo\u00eb Irvine create a soundscape that often gives you the feeling of being in nature or brings you close to nature, thanks to music performed in it. \u201cWe wanted to create this immersive sound that invites you into the landscape and gets you wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed in,\u201d Papacek Harper tells <em>THR<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOne recurring element in <em>Lost for Words<\/em> is children discussing nature and its loss. \u201cSome of the richest parts of the filming were spending time with the kids and realizing how much kids think about things that we don\u2019t expect them to be able to think about,\u201d the filmmaker says. \u201cBut if you give them a microphone, they have a lot to say, and they actually say some of the most touching things. I was going to see some scientists and researchers and artists with the expectation that they would have the really constructive thought process. But in the end, everyone comes to the same conclusion. It isn\u2019t rocket <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>. Connecting to actually work together for our future is a basic concept, and anyone can get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:3000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((1688\/3000)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lost-for-Words-2-Hannah-Papacek-Harper-H-2025.jpg?w=3000\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"1688\" width=\"3000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">\u2018Lost for Words\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Courtesy of Hannah Papacek Harper<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPapacek Harper is working on various new creative projects and ideas. \u201cLike most community filmmakers, I am always working across projects, some geared towards the same sort of subject matter,\u201d she tells <em>THR<\/em>. \u201cOne of them is a film that I\u2019m doing with my mother, which is about hope, and it will be in the Scottish forest conservation project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAnother part of her work is geared towards looking at the sense of belonging in the world. \u201cThat\u2019s more of a hybrid approach to cinema,\u201d the filmmaker explains. \u201cIt\u2019s about breaking away and trying to figure out a place in an over-connected world where we feel quite hopeless a lot of the time. A lot of the thought process behind what I do is about how we can have a feeling of agency. But also, what do we do with that power? There has to be a bit of humility in the mix.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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