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- By Our Selves is no exception; in its simplest terms, it's an experimental documentary on the 19th century nature poet John Clare featuring, as it does, interviews with Clare scholar Professor Simon Kövesi and Alan Moore, and a pilgrimage of the walk Clare made from the asylum he was kept in in Epping to Northampton, in search of his love Mary.
letterboxd.com/film/by-our-selves/review/By Our Selves (2015) directed by Andrew Kötting • Reviews ...
Oct 2, 2015 · Film of the week: By Our Selves. Toby Jones, Andrew Kötting (as a straw bear) and their merry men revive the wanderings and wonderings of Northamptonshire peasant poet John Clare, on a quest “for scenes where man hath never trod”. from our November 2015 issue.
Oct 2, 2015 · A key scene in Andrew Kötting’s delightfully barmy meditation on John Clare - once an obscure 19th century poet, now rated among the eternals – finds Iain Sinclair, veteran psychogeographer ...
- Toby Jones
- Andrew Kotting
Oct 5, 2015 · Feted for his celebrations of nature and rural peasant life, John Clare spent long periods in a mental asylum in Epping Forest, east of London. But he escaped in 1841 to embark on a 90-mile ...
- Stephen Dalton
Oct 29, 2015 · Inspired in part by filmmaker Iain Sinclair, psychogeographical work By Our Selves takes the form of a rather bizarre and completely unique documentary, charting Clare’s 1841 walk from an asylum...
Sep 29, 2015 · Toby Jones gives a silent performance as Clare, endlessly walking and observing, an 1840s man lost in a 2014 landscape. Meanwhile, Jones’s own father, Freddie Jones, who played Clare on...
- Andrew Kötting
- Dave Calhoun
- October 1, 2015
Oct 1, 2015 · With an impressionistic soundtrack blending natural noise, prose, lyrics and verse, this is a meandering monochrome meditation on poet John Clare’s four-day, 80-mile odyssey from an Epping Forest...
The film focuses on two figures, sometimes Andrew Kötting, sometimes Toby Jones as the middle-aged John Clare. As they channel, in their own fashion, the psychic wound exposed by Clare. John Clare is alone, between the two communities of the Epping Forest asylum and the hospital in Northamptonshire. Kötting is dressed as a straw bear, (an ...
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