Arcadia

The documentary takes the British countryside as its subject. The film was built from more than a hundred years of archive footage. The images come from the national film archive. There is no narration. Image and music carry the account. Two composers wrote the score together. The film moves through the seasons. There are scenes of fieldwork and of harvest. Village fetes and masked parades appear. Crafts that have been lost are shown. Old practices such as water divining are in the film too. The images are beautiful at times and harsh at others. The film asks about the relation between people and land. The contradictions in that relation come to the front. Ian Sexon and Laura Rennie appear in the eighty two minute documentary. It is a British production Paul Wright finished in 2017.