The Wayfaring Cinema Collective (WCC) welcomes you to a unique experience of nomadic distribution and cinema-making: film, fire, food and friendship, embodying new possibilities for mutual meeting and the exploration, culturally and socially, of different freedoms and desires.

In this first iteration the WCC is touring the most recent feature film, Wayfaring Stranger, by Jarman Award-winning artist and cultural activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman, alongside works by Turner Prize-nominated artist Delaine Le Bas and acclaimed writer Damian Le Bas.

The evening takes place outside in the Star and Shadow car park, with a fire and hot food. Shortly after sunset, the film programme will begin, enabled by the collective’s purpose-built travelling cinema.

The film and subsequent conversation will consider freedom of movement, gendered security in the rural landscape, and the challenges facing minoritised cultures, particularly GRT life, as well as celebrating the importance of community in person.

Opens at 6pm. Last entry at 7pm. Films start at 7pm, concluding with an in-person discussion with filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman.

'Gypsyland' (2014) by Delaine Le Bas. A series of short films based in London, Peterborough, Bolton and Glasgow, between 2023-2014.

The video represents a symbolic reclaiming of places with identifiable Romani/Gypsy genealogies, but which today are emptied of its historical Roma tenants. Delaine Le Bas is among the most recognized artists of Romani background, building her artwork around the themes of nationhood, race, gender, identity and, especially, the issues of belonging and “othering”. Delaine is a cross-disciplinary artist creating installations, performances, photography and films, she is internationally recognised as a Romani and British artist, representing Roma in the first Roma Pavilion Venice Biennale in 2007 and was recently nominated for The Turner Prize 2024. 

'Wayfaring Stranger' (2024) by Andrea Luka Zimmerman charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven per formers, across seven days, representing seven decades.

Filmed in landscapes marked by centuries of ceaseless, often destructive, human interaction, Wayfaring Stranger asks what it takes to find a liveable life on one’s own terms and without conflict with others and the environment. Andrea Luka Zimmerman is a Jarman Award-winning artist and filmmaker whose multi-layered practice explores fragile refusals and counter memories, itinerant lives, human and otherwise, in relation to structural and political injustice.

This event is supported by Arts Council England