By Our Selves 2015 (dir. Andrew Kötting) starring Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair etc
Director: Andrew Kotting Cast: Toby Jones (John Clare), Iain Sinclair, Alan Moore, Freddie Jones (Narrator), Eden Kötting (Dorothy), David Aylward, Simon Kövesi, MacGillivray IMDb: The film focuses on two figures, sometimes Andrew Kötting, sometimes Toby Jones as the middleaged John Clare. As they channel, in their own fashion, the psychic wound exposed by Clare. John Clare is alone, between the two communities of the Epping Forest asylum and the hospital in Northamptonshire. Kötting is dressed as a straw bear, (an alterego and metaphor for otherness). At the mercy of the voices and visions and the hard realities of the eating the hedgerow, sleeping on gravel, footfoundered but determined. Framing the narrative momentum of the walk in the acoustic footsteps of Clare is the more complex drama of the two asylum interludes. The forest edge in High Beach, the meeting with the gypsies. The desperation of being lost, with no sense of direction, among the ancient trees.
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