Green Screen: A Year in a Field / World Soil Day + Panel

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion including Dir. Christopher Morris hosted by Transition Bath.

We are Green Screening the beautiful meditation on a single piece of land in Cornwall, A Year in a Field as part of World Soil Day on Tuesday Dec 5th across all sites.

An ancient monolith stands sentinel in a Cornish field for millennia.

Part provocation, part meditation, part invocation, BAFTA-winning documentarian Christopher Morris’s A YEAR IN A FIELD is a record of their brief interaction.

Morris invites us to slow down, as he films for a year in a West Cornwall field; to immerse ourselves in this quiet, direct-action of stillness, to take a breath and reflect on the planetary impacts of our brief human existence, under the watchful gaze of the Longstone, a 4,000-year-old standing stone that predominates this elemental landscape.

From Winter Solstice 2020 to Winter Solstice 2021, a string of unprecedented worldwide climate disasters, met by weak global political resolve, are revealed as just fleeting moments, under the ever-present unflinching granite gaze of the Longstone.

As the wheel of the year turns, Morris’s ecosophical polemic unearths a mythic reality buried just below the furrowed soil of our consumerist age, suggesting, perhaps, that whilst time may feel like it’s running away at an ever-increasing rate, it’s not too late to pause, reflect, and change.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion hosted by Transition Bath.

All the audience are invited to continue the conversation in the events area of the cinema at which Keep Cup holders can have a free tea or filter coffee.