Tag: England
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Food systems are broken. Could treating land as commons help?
Widespread separation from the land combined with deep inequalities may give rise to novel forms of land governance, but with contradictions and contestations.
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Strange Natures: BRICKS
A short experimental film by Ceri Nicholls about the strangeness of human-centred worlds, isolation and nature.
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Strange Natures: Podcast – Folk horror and English commons
Andy Thatcher discusses how he uses film to appreciate English commons, and the uses of folk horror, the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’ in exploring contested histories.
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Strange Natures: Common Place
Common Place, a film by Andy Thatcher, is a hauntological exploration of access and climate crisis at a common in Devon. Common Place was filmed as part of a series of explorations around the Pebblebed Heaths National Nature Reserve in East Devon. Andy writes: I spent the month around the solstice 2023 filming in the…
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Strange Natures: Clouties – a ghost story
Short film by Andy Thatcher set in Grovely Wood, a registered common and former Norman hunting forest in southern England.
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More than a pub: the story of The Bevy
How a pub in Brighton became a centre of social life, learning and mutual support for a community.
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Recommended podcast: Changing Currents
This podcast from Arts Catalyst brings together artists, growers, community groups and researchers working on different initiatives in South Yorkshire.
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Film ‘Finite’ documents community resistance against mines
A powerful documentary about people coming together to take action against new mining developments in Germany and the UK.
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How could land in England be reformed for the commons?
Elise Wach explores the proposals from various social movements for changing how England’s rural spaces are governed.
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Hopping over the fence
How mass trespassers in England are venturing on to fenced-off lands to reconnect with lost commons.