Film: By Our Selves – John Clare’s English Journey

Link: https://tickets.aldeburgh.co.uk/Online/2015-festival-film-by-our-selves-john-clares-english-journey

In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked 80 miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce – a woman three years dead… Actor Toby Jones, writer Iain Sinclair and filmmaker Andrew Kötting (dressed as a Straw Bear), recreate Clare’s journey from Epping Forest to Helpston in Northamptonshire, a great English pilgrimage and a self-enacted novel in the tradition of The Pilgrim’s Progress. Andrew and Iain present a work-inprogress event, which will include short films and readings from Edge of the Orison, Iain’s account of Clare’s walk away from madness.