The second short film with an environmental theme to be released on my Substack, Fire Regime is a short film that looks at the destruction caused by wildfire, and the promise of eventual regrowth. This is not a journalistic approach to the subject. I call it a “Wildfire Cine-Poem”. It is only 6 minutes in length, and aside from a few text slides, has no narration. It is just imagery and music.
The imagery was shot in June 2024 in the Fremont-Winema National Forest in south-central Oregon. This area was burned in 2021 in the Bootleg Fire, which scorched just under a half-million acres and was the third-largest wildfire in Oregon’s recorded history.
The music was composed by my daughter Lucia Buck, a music student at Bennington College, and was recorded live in 2024. Being a live performance recording, this track added tremendous space and presence to the footage.
Like all my Substack postings, this is free for only one month, then it goes into an archive that is behind a paywall. I have no plans to release this publicly on another platform at this time (so hopefully you can view it while its free, or you can get a free 7-day trial subscription to my Substack and have access to all my posts.)