Stone Club

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In early September 2023, associate producer Neil Fox visited West Penwith to talk to director Christopher Morris and producer Denzil Monk about the making of A Year in a Field. The film was made by Bosena, in collaboration with Sound/Image Cinema Lab, for whom Neil is the research and strategy lead at Falmouth University, and Stone Club. The aim was to release the audio as part of Neil’s podcast The Cinematologists, but the wind had other ideas.

Hello, this is my first time posting. Starting with Stonehenge, and then at two other stone circles, one on Orkney Island and one in Portugal, I have had the experience of imbalance to the point I can't stand up without falling forward as I face the stones, or walk around them. I look like a drunk, as my family has told me. No one else has had this sensation. I have a video of me falling forward as I face each stone in the circle in Portugal.

The nights are drawing in, and the shorter days are with us but it matters not because we’re still managing to use the daylight hours and drier days to get out and visit sites and on those wet and more challenging days we have had a chance to catch up on reading and researching, not to mention all of the fantastic contributions that you’ve been sending us.

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In Christopher Morris’ 2023 documentary film A year in a field he says, when discussing the hobbled lungs of the planet, the director notes that he has never been to the Amazon. I have never been to see the Boscawen Longstone, the standing stone that magnetically draws the eye and camera over 86 captivating minutes. But absence of visitation does not mean absence of meaning and significance. This powerful film is to all intents and purposes a folk horror.

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Join us on a walk along the Antrim Coast as we visit three ancient sites with Michael Bates & Louise Parker, we find Ossians Grave, the hidden village and The Holestone at Doagh. We also talk wit Angela Samata about her work in the arts and health and her current obsesssions with the sites on Anglesey and how stone circles can disolve time. Also on Apple Podcasts and aso the usual podcast providers

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For today’s post we are revisiting a blog by Matthew Shaw from the early 2000’s and a trip to West Penwith with Scottish sound artist Brian Lavelle. This trip was the beginning of a musical recording project by Brian and Matthew known as Fougou. The results of which can be listened to here. Read on though for a trip around ancient Cornish sites in the form of an old diary entry. This had been a trip in the planning for many months. The only real plan though was to record in a Fogou.