Otherfield

‘The Land that Binds Us’ by Daniella Baldock ( ) is a WIP screened as part of Rough Cut screening at Otherfield.

In the Scottish Highlands, a seasoned crofter teaches a young apprentice the rhythms of working sheep, cattle, and land. The Land That Binds Us quietly reflects on identity, romanticism, and how rural communities are being reshaped.

Please join the screening in a safe space and share your constructive feedback with the filmmaker.

Otherfield is a festival dedicated to non fiction films and processes away from commercial pressure.

⏰ 1-3 August 2025
📍 Laughton Lodge
🎟️ Link in bio (limited tickets left)

London Community Video Archive team () will be joining our programme at Otherfield to present a workshop on “Making a Community Video Archive and its Gaps and Emergent Spaces”.

This film programme presents newly acquired material to discern gaps and emergent spaces in the archive.

The post-screening panel will include LCVA founding directors Tony Dowmunt and Andy Porter, who will share their personal perspectives on their respective paths into community video practice of the 1970s and discuss how and why they came to establish the LCVA.

The session is designed as an intergenerational dialogue with the intention of asking what we might learn from past community media practices when viewed through a contemporary critical lens.

Excerpts will be shown from films including:

Things that Mother Never Told Us (1977) informed by the methods of consciousness-raising groups from the Women’s Liberation Movement, Carry Gorney uses video to collaborate with women on Milton Keynes council estates talking about relationships, motherhood, marriage, and identity.

Open Door: Transex Liberation Group (clip) part of the Channel 4 programme series Open Door, it features a rare broadcast of early trans organising.

Dead Proud (1988), written and performed by Second Wave, presents sharp, funny sketches by black and white working-class women, drawing on their experiences to explore teenage pregnancy, school, and family.

Election 74 Part 2 (1974) captures a political debate on party organising, ending with voter interviews at a polling station in Tower Hamlets.

You Got to be Choking (1994) documents the grassroots campaign against the M11 Link Road by communities in East London during 1993–94.

Curated and introduced by LCVA team: Phoebe Beckett Chingono (), Jaye Hudson (), and Cici Peng ().

⏰ 1 – 3 August
📍 Laughton Lodge, East Sussex
🎟️ Link in bio for full programme description