On Radio Somerset. The Land Remains Screening Tour — Stone Club
The official trailer for The Land Remains by Boris Thompson-Roylance.
The Land Remains places Britain’s renewed interest in folklore and ritual in dialogue with the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge, exploring how land, migration, and belonging shape national identity today. Across a year, director, @deadbeatboris spent a year filming pre-christian traditions and sacred sites across the country. Pagan practices, aligned with the calendar wheel, structured around the solstices, equinoxes, and seasonal thresholds. Alongside this, Boris spent a year documenting the Bibby Stockholm Barge in Portland, Dorset, which housed hundreds of male asylum seekers. The filmmaker saw the Barge as a symbol of the previous Governments hostile environment. The Land Remains examines how folklore and the rising tide of nationalism collide within a divided nation, revealing how belonging continues to shape national identity today. A powerful convergence of two themes - migration, and connection to the land - with a powerful manifesto for divided times "we are a migrant nation". The film features many prominent voices in the folk community, including folk singer and song collector Sam Lee and alchemist and apothecarist Charlotte Pulver.
