Wayfaring Cinema Tour: Abundant Earth

Commencing at Durham-based permaculture and wellbeing project Abundant Earth The Wayfaring Cinema Collective (WCC) launched its inaugural tour in torrential rain, and under hastily fabricated timber and canvas awnings. We welcomed audiences in the north east to a unique experience of nomadic distribution and cinema-making: film, fire, food and friendship, embodying new possibilities for mutual meeting and the exploration, culturally and socially, of different freedoms and desires.

In this first iteration the WCC toured the most recent feature film, Wayfaring Stranger, by Jarman Award-winning artist and cultural activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman, alongside works by Turner Prize-nominated artist Delaine Le Bas and acclaimed writer Damian Le Bas.

The evening took place outside with a fire and hot food. Shortly after sunset, the film programme began, enabled by the collective’s purpose-built travelling cinema.

The film and subsequent conversation considered freedom of movement, gendered security in the rural landscape, and the challenges facing minoritised cultures, particularly GRT life, as well as celebrating the importance of community in person.