Walking and…

The city is Sarajevo, and the route the woman takes became known as Sniper Alley during the siege of the city endured by its citizens for 1395 days between 1992 and 1996. The woman, played by Spanish actress Maribel Verdu, is reliving the experience of the trauma of the siege. It is her individual journey through [...]

Chantel Akerman Night and Day 1991 “There is a film history, as yet unwritten, of walking….” “…perhaps the cinema’s greatest poet of the act of walking is Belgian-born Chantal Akerman. Her characters cover the gamut of all possible variations on this gesture. They march in straight lines and wander in circles. Their humble two-steps, in [...]

“Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion.”

Four undertakers in financial trouble latch onto a one-off opportunity to change their lives and bid farewell to a profession they entered for a while, but got stuck in for good. On the promise of a large fee, they fulfill the dying wish of a rich Greek who lived his life abroad: he wants them [...]

Gerry is a 2002 film directed by Gus Van San and it is the first film of his “Death Trilogy”. A friendship between two twenty-something men is tested to its very limits when they go on a hike in a desert and forget to bring any water or food with them.

Landscape and Environment is a thematic, multidisciplinary programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council aiming to develop arts and humanities understandings of landscape and environment in distinctive, innovative and engaging ways through research projects of the highest quality and international significance. The Landscape and Environment Programme was established in September 2005 with the appointment by [...]

Patrick Keiller’s London (1994) offers a phychogeographic tour of the capital in 1992. The film sits somewhere between documentary and fiction, employing unseen characters: Robinson, and the unamed narrator who recounts thier travels and observations of the city. The film is structured as a series of derive-like excursions that navigate their way through social history, [...]

The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia,formerly known as the No. 1 Rabbit-proof Fence,  is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits and other agricultural pests, from the east, out of Western Austalian pastoral areas. Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the book [...]

Animator Ryan Larkin uses an artist’s sensibility to illustrate the way people walk. He employs a variety of techniques: line drawing, colour wash, etc. to catch and reproduce the motion of people afoot. Ryan Larking, “Walking” 1968    

The Lord of the Rings is a film series consisting of three fantasy adventure films co-written and directed by Peter Jackson and based on English author J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The films are, by subtitle, The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the [...]

A father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the “El camino de Santiago” and decides to take the pilgrimage himself.

The Way Back is a 2010 drama film about a group of prisoners who escape from a Siberian Gulag camp during World War II. In 1941, three men reach India from Tibet, having walked 4000 miles after escaping a Siberian gulag. The film tells their story and that of four others who escaped with them [...]

by Agnes Varda’s (1985) Vagabond is an excoriating, subtly disturbing portrait of alienation and lost direction. In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She’s unkempt, a vagabond. Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final weeks as she camps alone or falls in with various [...]

Two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own. They meet an Aborigine on “walkabout”: a ritualistic separation from his tribe.  

Directed by Nicole Holofcener. With Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Amy Braverman, Miranda Rhyne