Penda's Fen + Q&A
A truly unique film from the Play for Today series, produced down the road from mac at Pebble Mill and filmed in the wilds of Worcestershire. David Rudkin’s script concerns the visions and torments of Stephen, a teenager on the brink of eighteen who believes he has been charged with a mission to pursue “new experiments in human living”. Through a series of strange encounters he comes to embrace a pagan England long buried but still traceable through roadsigns, churchyards and clues in the landscape. This may be a story of nationalism, or sexual awakening, or the horrors of modernity. The director Alan Clarke (Scum, Made in Britain) claimed that he was never quite sure but did a terrific job all the same, and it remains one of the finest screen realisations of the writer’s work. David Rudkin will be at mac after the screening to discuss the film with Gareth Evans of Vertigo magazine.
Dir: Alan Clarke (UK 1974, 90 minutes)
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