By Our Selves documents a four-day walk made by the English Poet John Clare from an asylum in the Epping Forest up into Northamptonshire. Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps exactly 150 years after his death. En route they bump into Highland musician and poet MacGillivray, and graphic novelist Alan Moore. Captured in black & white photography, they discover the only truth of the road: whatever our hopes and delusions, we are always By Our Selves.
To gallivant is according to its dictionary definition ""to wander about seeking pleasure or diversion; to go about with members of the opposite sex"" and this is just what artist turned filmmaker Andrew Kotting set out to do on this zig-zagging six thousand mile trip around Britain's coastline. Part home movie part road movie Kotting's riveting and eccentric film stars his 85-year old grandmother Gladys - opinionated bursting with anecdotes and contradictory reminisences and his eight year old daughter Eden. Kotting uses 16mm and Super 8 filmstock found footage timelapse photography and much non-synchronous sound to reveal a wonderland of bizarre traditions and quirky strangers
Based upon the novel by ''‰mile Zola This Filthy Earth tells the tragic story of two sisters whose lives are disrupted by two men. Amidst a landscape of rural hardship and a community consumed with superstition events unfurl which threaten their sibling bond.
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