Dir. Boris Thompson-Roylance
2025 | 32 mins | UK

Join us for a special director Q&A screening of The Land Remains, which places Britain’s renewed interest in folklore and ritual in dialogue with the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge – exploring how land, migration, and belonging shape national identity today.

Artist and filmmaker Boris Thompson-Roylance spent a year filming pre-christian ceremonies, pagan practices and traditions across the country alongside his work exploring and documenting displacement and forced migration, focusing on the Bibby Stockholm Barge in Portland, Dorset, which housed hundreds of male asylum seekers – ‘I saw the Barge as a symbol of the previous Government’s hostile environment’

The Land Remains explores how these two realities of folklore and the growing rise of nationalism co-exist within a divided nation, both yearning to reconnect to England’s past, in order to make sense of its complicated present

This special screening will include a special Director introduction and post screening discussion.

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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