Movies: Dan Guthrie

  • 2018
    Three Young Men on a Bench

    Three Young Men on a Bench (2018)

    Three Young Men on a Bench

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    A reframing of an old photograph of three men posing effortlessly in their Sunday best from the artist’s family album. At once a gentle account of family history, of lived experience, of intergenerational dialogue and of connection to the landscapes ...

    Three Young Men on a Bench
  • 2022
    black strangers

    black strangers (2022)

    black strangers

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    After seeing a mention of a man called ‘Daniel’ on a Bishop’s Transcript held in Gloucestershire Archives, Dan goes for a walk in the woods in search of the man buried in Nympsfield in 1719 and described on the Transcript as ‘a black stranger’. Whil...

    black strangers
  • 2020
    albion, refreshed

    albion, refreshed (2020)

    albion, refreshed

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    Tourists hunch under their Union Jack umbrella in the greenery of central London, while a composited flag in an array of red, white and blue Ankara fabrics ripples against the coastal waves of sunset-lit Margate Beach....

    albion, refreshed
  • 1969
    Coaley Peak (A Fragment)

    Coaley Peak (A Fragment) (1969)

    Coaley Peak (A Fragment)

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    Dan Guthrie was selected by Exeter Phoenix for their 2021 Artists’ Moving Image commission. His idea was to make a film about Blackness and belonging in the English countryside, taking a family photo of some of his relatives at the Gloucestershire vi...

    Coaley Peak (A Fragment)