A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human beings to nature since the beginning of time.
Editing
Wright's collisions of eras—Victorian ploughshares, 1970s acid trips, modern surveillance.
Sound
Adrian Utley's score: folk drones that crawl under your skin.
Direction
Found footage as séance, not nostalgia.
Director
Paul Wright
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wright spent three years in the BFI archives, watching over 800 films—most never digitized, some literally crumbling as he viewed them.
Released the same year as 'Get Out' and 'The Witch,' 'Arcadia' completes an accidental trilogy about inherited horror and who owns the land.
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