Otherfield

09/03/2026

Please share and come - Otherfield screening - 18th March 8:15pm.
In partnership with Lewes depot Cinema
Otherfield are curating a series of film screenings - starting with the remarkable film ‘I’m not Everything I Want To Be’ about Czech photographer Libuše Jarčovjaková built entirely from her photos.

Tickets & Info

I'm Not Everything

31/07/2025

‘The Land that Binds Us’ by Daniella Baldock ( ) is a WIP screened as part of Rough Cut screening at Otherfield.

In the Scottish Highlands, a seasoned crofter teaches a young apprentice the rhythms of working sheep, cattle, and land. The Land That Binds Us quietly reflects on identity, romanticism, and how rural communities are being reshaped.

Please join the screening in a safe space and share your constructive feedback with the filmmaker.

Otherfield is a festival dedicated to non fiction films and processes away from commercial pressure.

⏰ 1-3 August 2025
📍 Laughton Lodge
🎟️ Link in bio (limited tickets left)

28/07/2025

As part of our Rough Cut screening we invite you to join a safe space for constructive feedback, ideas and susggestions.

Nirmala Lan Hessellund ( ) will share her WIP “The Orchid Hunt” (WT) exploring themes of belonging, memory and preservation of the nearly invisible.

Some people speak of landscape as the earliest expression forming a culture. Here preserving plants becomes about preserving culture. In the forests of Taiwan, a man hunts for endangered orchids as a woman searches for belonging in the Taiwanese landscape. But what does it mean to be preserving nature in the face of ecological destruction? And what does it mean to find belonging on disputed land?

Otherfield is a festival dedicated to non fiction and processes away from commercial pressure.

‍⏰ 1 – 3 August
📍 Laughton Lodge
🎟️ Link in bio (limited tickets left)

25/07/2025

💡 Workshop: The Movement of Attention: A Dyadic Filming Practice

With Dominique Rivoal ( )

This workshop invites participants to slow down and engage in the acts of filming and being filmed from a place of embodied presence. 

Through dyadic exchange, we explore how attention moves between self, other, and context, and how this shapes the experience of filming.

The concept of dyadic exchange relates to non fiction - in terms of relationships, power dynamics, and ethics between filmmaker and subject.

Working in pairs, participants alternate between the roles of filmmaker (the one who frames) and subject (the one who is seen). Using their own phones or cameras, participants follow a guided score that explores shifting attention. Recording is optional—the primary aim is presence.

Otherfield is a film festival that reimagines the possibilities of non-fiction

⏰ 1 - 3 August
📍 Laughton Lodge
🎟️ For tickets - go to link in bio

23/07/2025

A Bunch of Questions With No Answers is a video installation that pushes past the borders of film, journalism and historical record made by Alex Reynolds and Robert M. Ochshorn

This mammoth project, over 23 hrs long, is a critical look at the dynamics of information dissemination and the challenges of seeking truth in the face of political inertia

A Bunch of Questions with No Answers is a record of the questions posed by journalists to the US State Department during press briefings between Oct 3, 2023 and the end of the Biden administration about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. As the endless demands for clarification and accountability were repeatedly met with convoluted evasions, the artists chose to edit them out.

The audience is invited to participate in a collective viewing of this huge work and record responses to the fragments each one watches - to make meaning from this narrative. 

These will be fed into a discussion where the filmmakers are in conversation with media researcher journalists  and .a96 

Together, we’ll explore what it means to ask questions that are never answered, what the nature of this relationship becomes and what kind of public record is created in the act of asking.

🌳 Otherfield
⏰1 - 3 August
📍 Laughton Lodge
🎟️ Weekend passes and day tix
🔗 Link in bio

23/07/2025

A Bunch of Questions With No Answers is a video installation that pushes past the borders of film, journalism and historical record made by Alex Reynolds and Robert M. Ochshorn

This mammoth project, over 23 hrs long, is a critical look at the dynamics of information dissemination and the challenges of seeking truth in the face of political inertia

A Bunch of Questions with No Answers is a record of the questions posed by journalists to the US State Department during press briefings between Oct 3, 2023 and the end of the Biden administration about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. As the endless demands for clarification and accountability were repeatedly met with convoluted evasions, the artists chose to edit them out.

The audience is invited to participate in a collective viewing of this huge work and record responses to the fragments each one watches - to make meaning from this narrative. 

These will be fed into a discussion where the filmmakers are in conversation with media researcher journalists  and .a96 

Together, we’ll explore what it means to ask questions that are never answered, what the nature of this relationship becomes and what kind of public record is created in the act of asking.

This film will play through the duration of the festival across three days.

23/07/2025

A Bunch of Questions With No Answers is a video installation that pushes past the borders of film, journalism and historical record made by Alex Reynolds and Robert M. Ochshorn

This mammoth project, over 23 hrs long, is a critical look at the dynamics of information dissemination and the challenges of seeking truth in the face of political inertia

A Bunch of Questions with No Answers is a record of the questions posed by journalists to the US State Department during press briefings between Oct 3, 2023 and the end of the Biden administration about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. As the endless demands for clarification and accountability were repeatedly met with convoluted evasions, the artists chose to edit them out.

The audience is invited to participate in a collective viewing of this huge work and record responses to the fragments each one watches - to make meaning from this narrative. 

These will be fed into a discussion where the filmmakers are in conversation with media researcher journalists  and .a96 

Together, we’ll explore what it means to ask questions that are never answered, what the nature of this relationship becomes and what kind of public record is created in the act of asking.

This film will play through the duration of the festival across three days.

22/07/2025

London Community Video Archive team () will be joining our programme at Otherfield to present a workshop on “Making a Community Video Archive and its Gaps and Emergent Spaces”.

This film programme presents newly acquired material to discern gaps and emergent spaces in the archive.

The post-screening panel will include LCVA founding directors Tony Dowmunt and Andy Porter, who will share their personal perspectives on their respective paths into community video practice of the 1970s and discuss how and why they came to establish the LCVA.

The session is designed as an intergenerational dialogue with the intention of asking what we might learn from past community media practices when viewed through a contemporary critical lens.

Excerpts will be shown from films including:

Things that Mother Never Told Us (1977) informed by the methods of consciousness-raising groups from the Women’s Liberation Movement, Carry Gorney uses video to collaborate with women on Milton Keynes council estates talking about relationships, motherhood, marriage, and identity.

Open Door: Transex Liberation Group (clip) part of the Channel 4 programme series Open Door, it features a rare broadcast of early trans organising.

Dead Proud (1988), written and performed by Second Wave, presents sharp, funny sketches by black and white working-class women, drawing on their experiences to explore teenage pregnancy, school, and family.

Election 74 Part 2 (1974) captures a political debate on party organising, ending with voter interviews at a polling station in Tower Hamlets.

You Got to be Choking (1994) documents the grassroots campaign against the M11 Link Road by communities in East London during 1993–94.

Curated and introduced by LCVA team: Phoebe Beckett Chingono (), Jaye Hudson (), and Cici Peng ().

⏰ 1 – 3 August
📍 Laughton Lodge, East Sussex
🎟️ Link in bio for full programme description

21/07/2025

SINGING HISTORIES shorts strands lets us questions if we could tilt, and direct our attention to sound? Listening to these shorts, we explore film as a carrier for melodies, voices, and rhythms. A vehicle transmitting stories from ear to ear, from one generation to another.

Heli by Poshali Goel () | 20‘ | 2022

‍Two siblings carry Bhakti poetry through song — Mahesha Ram performing at public satsangs, and Jamuna Bai singing within the home. Between these two settings — a space opens up. Through their voices and the legacy of Mira Bai, it explores how music moves between worlds, asking what is remembered and where knowledge lives.

We Flykayetfetho Jnahtina, Nteero (And As Our Wings Unfurl, We Fly) by Leila Gamaz ( ) | 3’37 | 2025

Using direct animation and shot footage, As Our Wings Unfurl We Fly presents dhikr - the remembrance of God through repeated phrases - as a form of joyful protest. Living in a world that attempts to control and own us, the utterance of La Ilaha Illala - there is nothing but God - becomes a radical act of defiance and reclamation. It refuses to acknowledge the ‘power’ of the systems around us, instead honouring the power of The Most High. From this place, we can taste true liberation and freedom.

A (Rough) Seasonal Work Song by Collectif Tizintizwa ( ) | 41‘ | 2024

In this participatory docu-fiction, agricultural laborer and oral poet Fadma Boutalaa portrays a fictionalized version of herself as a seasonal apple picker. She writes and performs her own role, blending her story with that of Cheikh Hammou, a troubadour who bears witness to her journey. As she sings, her voice brings relief to the labour.
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Otherfield is a community run festival dedicated to non fiction films and processes away from commercial pressure.
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‍⏰ 1 – 3 August
📍 Laughton Lodge
🎟️ Link in bio (limited tickets left)

21/07/2025

SINGING HISTORIES shorts strands lets us questions if we could we tilt, and direct our attention to sound?
Listening to these shorts, we explore film as a carrier for melodies, voices, and rhythms. A vehicle transmitting stories from ear to ear, from one generation to another.

Heli by Poshali Goel ( ) | 20‘ | 2022

‍Two siblings carry Bhakti poetry through song — Mahesha Ram performing at public satsangs, and Jamuna Bai singing within the home. Between these two settings — a space opens up. Through their voices and the legacy of Mira Bai, it explores how music moves between worlds, asking what is remembered and where knowledge lives.

We Flykayetfetho Jnahtina, Nteero (And As Our Wings Unfurl, We Fly) by Leila Gamaz ( ) 3’37 | 2025

Using direct animation and shot footage, As Our Wings Unfurl We Fly presents dhikr - the remembrance of God through repeated phrases - as a form of joyful protest. Living in a world that attempts to control and own us, the utterance of La Ilaha Illala - there is nothing but God - becomes a radical act of defiance and reclamation. It refuses to acknowledge the ‘power’ of the systems around us, instead honouring the power of The Most High. From this place, we can taste true liberation and freedom.

A (Rough) Seasonal Work Song by Collectif Tizintizwa | 41‘ | 2024

In this participatory docu-fiction, agricultural laborer and oral poet Fadma Boutalaa portrays a fictionalized version of herself as a seasonal apple picker. She writes and performs her own role, blending her story with that of Cheikh Hammou, a troubadour who bears witness to her journey. As she sings, her voice brings relief to the labour.
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Otherfield is a community run festival focused on non fiction films and processes away from commercial pressure.

‍⏰ 1 – 3 August
📍 Laughton Lodge
🎟️ Link in bio (limited tickets left)

19/07/2025

🌟 CONSTELLATIONS: Therapeutic workshop for documentary filmmakers

Experience the System Constellations approach with other filmmakers in this therapeutic workshop: a chance to work on an issue with support from others.

Amongst many issues, you may be:

- Seeking a way forward for you, with a project that feels stuck
- Asking how to keep going given scarce resources and opportunities
- Searching for better / clearer relationships with significant people involved in your project

The focus of constellations is on the individual in the context of their 'system'. Much like in the solar system there are a myriad different interconnected elements and forces at play for each of us within our very own and unique system. Through constellations, significant events that have impacted on the system and its web of relationships can be explored. 

Underlying and sometimes unseen dynamics operating within the individual's system can become apparent. Then, with greater clarity of the system and its forces, work towards resolving entanglements and blockages within the system is undertaken. Positive change often follows.

Facilitated by Andrea Dechamps - an integrative therapist, supervisor, coach and systemic Constellations facilitator, and specialist in end of life care.

More details and sign up form in our online programme

Otherfield is a space to re-imagine non-fiction, where process is as important as outcome.

⏰ 1 - 3 August
📍 Laughton Lodge
🎟️ Weekend passes and day tickets available
🔗 Link in bio