Afterthoughts of a Walk on the Naze

2024, English. Directed by Louis Henderson.

In the year of his death, my great-uncle, the artist Nigel Henderson, wrote a letter addressed to my future self. In his letter, he asked me to decipher a painting he made of the fossilized cliffs at Walton on the Naze in Essex, in the east of England. As a clue, he sent me a photocopied manuscript of ​the novel “The Fourbanks of the River of Space” by ​the South American novelist Wilson Harris, who lived nearby. Afterthoughts of a Walk on the Naze is ​a​ quantum fiction that attempts to ​answer his letter. I revisit the house and studio where he made the painting and film the surrounding seascape/riverscape and the cliffs the painting references. Harris’ book, the landscapes and the painting work together in counterpoint, revealing ideas about artistic inheritance, creation, death, weather and time.

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0h 29m

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Language

English

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