Coaley Peak (A Fragment), 2021

Single channel video, 6 minutes 19 seconds

Image descriptions: Image 1 is of the words “A poignant and pivotal final shot” in quotation marks superimposed in white text over a shot of someone’s hand holding up a photograph in the countryside, obscured by an orange hue. Image 2 is of the words ‘I want to try and describe a photo to you’ in white text superimposed over a shot of barely visible dark green streaks against a black background.

Image credits: Stills from Coaley Peak (A Fragment) by Dan Guthrie, 2021.

Selected by Exeter Phoenix for their 2021 Artists’ Moving Image commission, Dan’s idea was to make a film about Blackness and belonging in the English countryside, taking a family photo of some of his relatives at the Gloucestershire viewpoint Coaley Peak as a starting point. Whilst making the film, something happened.

Coaley Peak (A Fragment) is self-distributed, please contact the artist directly at dan@danguthrie.net for more information.

glider.mov, an epilogue of sorts to Coaley Peak (A Fragment) screened on Piccadilly Lights in September 2025 as part of CIRCA PRIZE 2025 and is viewable here.

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Short Film Programme Screening Notes
 Whitstable Biennale, June 2022