An expanded cinema screening of the BFI’s folk-horror feature Arcadia. Directed by Paul Wright and powerfully scored by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp),the film is a provocative and poetic exploration of our contradictory relationship to the land.
Compass Presents’ created an experimental, visceral archive experience in wild woodland where strange characters were encountered: naked frolickers, a Pagan priestess, a masked harpist in a projection-mapped hut, aflame. Taking their seats in an amphitheatre under the stars the audience then settled in for the screening, to travel through the seasons in this beautiful, brutal, magic and mad portrait of rural Britain.
A sequel event in partnership with Tate presented the film in the context of exhibited artworks as part of the ‘A Closer Look’ programme, with Portishead’s Adrain Utley and Watershed’s Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove in conversation after the screening.
These events were produced by Compass Presents in partnership with BFI, Tate, Encounters Film Festival, Common Ground and Film Hub South West.
