By Our Selves
Notes
Documents a four-day walk made by the English Poet John Clare. Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps exactly 150 years after his death. En route they bump into Macgillivray, Dr Simon Kovesi and the wizard Alan Moore. Meantime the journey is narrated by Toby’s father Freddie, a maverick actor who featured in numerous David Lynch films.
83 mins.
| Artist / Author | Andrew Kötting |
|---|---|
| Reference | D2306 |
| Date | 2005 |
| Type | DVD |
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