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‘The Bridge’ / ‘Y Bont’, 2016, a short film created as a ‘deep mapping’ experiment set in Cardigan Bay and which was the pilot for the ‘Layers in the Landscape’ project, having grown out of Erin Kavanagh’s Master’s dissertation at UWTSD; the contributors include Maria Hayes (artwork), Lynne Denman (song), Diarmuid Johnson (flute), Martin Bates (geoscience), Peter Stevenson (narration) and Erin Kavanagh (stills photography and artwork); each commissioned response was integrated into the film to show how an interdisciplinary approach to site specific representation could be achieved in a format that is equally accessible to all sides; filmed and edited by Jacob Whittaker, and produced and directed by Erin Kavanagh.

‘Layers in the Landscape’, 2016, a short film which sought to ‘deep map’ Cardigan Bay by bringing together multi-disciplinarian experts in a range of fields, each with skill crossovers with at least one of the other participants; what they chose to produce was their own choice and developed organically; the contributors include Martin Bates (geoscience and archaeology), Maria Hayes (artwork), Diarmuid Johnson (medieval Welsh language and literature), Lynne Denman (song), Peter Stevenson (artwork and folklore), Jacob Whittaker (filming and editing) and Erin Kavanagh (direction, production, folklore, photography, geoscience, archaeology and artwork), and there is also an interview with the geoscientist Denis Bates; the film includes the ‘Time Scroll’, the ‘Thin Deep Map’ and excerpts from the ‘Bran’ song’ and the ‘King of the Sea Trees’ poem; filmed and edited by Jacob Whittaker, directed and produced by Erin Kavanagh, and used in the project exhibitions.

A photographic reel, January 2018, containing an account of a live performance entitled ‘Penrolio’ at the castle mound, UWTSD Lampeter, in which R.M. Parry delivered his sculpture, ‘Pen Bendigeidfran’, to the ‘Layers in Lampeter’ exhibition; the performance was inspired by ‘Branwen uerch Lyr’.