Stone Club Walks and Talks with Christopher Morris & Denzil Monk

Stone Club Walks and Talks

Today we walk and talk with film director Christopher Morris in West Penwith, Cornwall. We visit Boscawen Ros East Menhir, Tregiffian Burial Chamber and The Merry Maidens Stone Circle before returning to Christopher's house to continue our conversation out of the wind. Joining us for this episode are film producer Denzil Monk, Stone Club co-founder Lally MacBeth and fine artist Sarah Ball. Christoper and Denzil are the team behind the film A Year in a Field the story of one Cornish field told over one climatic year. Winter Solstice 2020: with his camera and tripod, BAFTA winning documentary filmmaker Christopher Morris began filming each day in a field near his home. “I’ve never glued my hand to a road, or strapped myself to a tree and I’ve never been on a climate protest march but once in a lifetime natural disasters are happening more than once in my lifetime and I’ve got to do something...” A quiet, unnoticed, one-man vigil, a direct-action of stillness. He stopped filming on Winter Solstice 2021: a year that UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said was “make or break” for humanity to confront the climate crisis. “I struggle to comprehend what I am being told.” A Year In A Field is not made by a climate scientist. It is a local, lo-fi, low-impact film - in contrast to the overblown, blue-chip, carbon-generating film productions that fly the globe in pursuit of unfamiliar wonders to address the climate emergency through tech-driven cinematic dazzle - more akin to science fiction. Presented by Matthew Shaw