Exile in the Kingdom I
2019
Made in Fife, Scotland
4K
“Rab Harling’s new film Exile in the Kingdom is beautiful. One of the most original things I’ve seen in a long time”
– Paul Sng, director of Invisible Britain and Dispossession: the Great Social Housing Swindle.
An evening of art, science & poetry exploring the ash tree:
Exile in the Kingdom is an elegy to Britain’s third most common tree, the ash, which may soon become a rare site on Britains landscape, due to infection by the ash dieback pathogen. Ash dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) is estimated to affect up to 95% of Britains estimated 90 million ash trees.
Starting at 7pm, 8th November 2019 at Cable Depot, London:
The premiere of Rab Harling’s new film, Exile in the Kingdom and a short introduction to the project.
A reading of symbiotic poetry by Paul Connealy, aka Little Onion written via link, shift and channelling with William Wordsworth.
Sward {skin of the earth} is Lucy Furlong’s latest walking project and the subject of her new chapbook from Sampson Low. She will read from this and also read recent poems written for the trees on the Cambridge Estate in Kingston Upon Thames, 200 of which will be felled in the name of regeneration.
An introduction to ash dieback by Mark McMullan, Evolutionary Biologist at the Earlham Institute.
Event reviewed by Paul Conneally for a-n: