Translocations is a film that explores intervention and transformation in nature. It centres upon sphagnum moss, and its transference across areas of a restored peatbog. Layering together expansive landscape vistas, microscopic details and a tactile soundtrack score, the film documents a physical human action performed in peatland restoration: moving ('translocating') gathered balls of sphagnum moss from replete to deplete areas of the bog, enabling a keystone species in peat formation and carbon sequestration to thrive and rejuvenate a vital natural habitat.

Exploring the luminous and vivid characteristics of this rewilded, transitional terrain, the film depicts the abundance of re-introduced sphagnum moss and the dynamic mosaic of species that are now thriving both above and below the surface of the bog, from flowering cotton grasses and carnivorous sundews to dragonflies and silk-moths.

A film by Nick Jordan
Soundtrack score by Otis Jordan