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A YEAR IN A FIELD Blu-Ray

Limited Edition Blu Ray with Slipcase Printed on FSC-Certified Paper

“Menhirs often figure in folk horror, whether in Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973), Peter Graham Scott’s TV series Children of the Stones (1977), Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth (2021), Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men (2022) or Chris Cronin’s The Moor (2023) – all films that, in different ways, explore the uneasy nexus between pagan times and present day, between anthropology and physics. A Year In A Field is doing something similar, locating our species in a vast, stonily indifferent cosmos, and suggesting that we, like everything else, will be swallowed in the ruinous turbulence of a change that we are ourselves expediting.”

Anton Bitel

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A YEAR IN A FIELD Blu-Ray

Limited Edition Blu Ray with Slipcase Printed on FSC-Certified Paper

$36.95 CAD

This is a pre-order, available to Canadian customers only – items will not begin shipping until late May 2026.
US customers please purchase from Severin Films, where you can also find limited edition bundles (see details below)

An ancient monolith stands sentinel in a Cornish field for millennia. Part provocation, part meditation, part invocation, BAFTA-winning documentarian Christopher Morris’s A YEAR IN A FIELD is a record of their brief interaction.

Weathering the elements in the centre of a field in West Cornwall is the Longstone, a natural relic that has quietly witnessed 4,000 years of tumultuous history. Morris’ elegiac, meditative, yet profoundly important film is the record of a year in the life of the monolith, beginning on Winter Solstice 2020, as the order of the natural world began unravelling around the globe and the threat of extreme climate change became a reality. Beautifully shot, with a richly layered sound design, the film meditates on the passage of time through its appreciation of nature, highlighting the subtle changes of the seasons, but also the need to act in order to battle man-made changes that will forever change our planet. (Sheffield Doc Fest)

LIMITED EDITION ‘MONOLITHS BUNDLE’ $43 USD – ONLY FROM SEVERINFILMS.COM
Includes ‘Stones of Kernow’ set of four ceramic coasters by Sight Study Art & Design featuring photographs of the standing stones Boscawen Ros (the stone from A YEAR IN A FIELD), The Blind Fiddler, Trevorgans Menhir and The Mên-an-Tol, taken by Kier-La Janisse in the south of Cornwall in Autumn 2025.

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“Menhirs often figure in folk horror, whether in Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973), Peter Graham Scott’s TV series Children of the Stones (1977), Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth (2021), Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men (2022) or Chris Cronin’s The Moor (2023) – all films that, in different ways, explore the uneasy nexus between pagan times and present day, between anthropology and physics. A Year In A Field is doing something similar, locating our species in a vast, stonily indifferent cosmos, and suggesting that we, like everything else, will be swallowed in the ruinous turbulence of a change that we are ourselves expediting.”

Anton Bitel

Projected Figures

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Year

2023

Format

Blu Ray

Region

A/B/C

Sound

English 5.1 / English Stereo

Captions

English SDH (including SDH on most extras)

Description

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Introduction by Christopher Morris recorded for the Gimme Some Truth Film Festival
  • More Than Slow Cinema: Director Christopher Morris and Producer Denzil Monk in Conversation
  • Paranormal in the West Country: An Interview with Stone Club’s Lally MacBeth and Matthew Shaw
  • Q&A at the Philosophical Research Society moderated by Will Sheff of Okkervil River
  • Interview with Christopher Morris at the Zurich Film Festival
  • KESTAV (2023) – Short film by Christopher Morris
  • HOLLOWAY (2015) – Short film by Adam Scovell, written and narrated by Robert Macfarlane
  • Trailer

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Printed on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified paper

 

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