Coaley Peak (A Fragment), 2021
Single channel video, 6 minutes 19 seconds

Image description: The phrase “A poignant and pivotal final shot” in quotation marks is superimposed in white sentence case text over an orange hued shot of a hand holding up a barely visible photograph against the countryside. 

Image credit: Still from Coaley Peak (A Fragment), Dan Guthrie, 2021.

Image description: The phrase ‘I want to try and describe a photo to you’ in white text is superimposed over a shot of blurry dark green streaks against a black background.

Image credit: Still from Coaley Peak (A Fragment), Dan Guthrie, 2021.

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) was commissioned by Exeter Phoenix for their 2021 Artists’ Moving Image commission, and is self-distributed. Please contact the artist directly at dan@danguthrie.net to organise a screening or exhibition of the work.

glider.mov, an epilogue to Coaley Peak (A Fragment) screened on Piccadilly Lights in September 2025 as part of CIRCA PRIZE 2025 and is viewable here. An accompanying print is on sale as part of a fundraiser for Palestine here, with all profits going to Gaza Soup Kitchen. 

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Selected screenings and exhibitions
2025    Toward The Forest, Forma, London2023    Year 3, Prismatic Ground, New York
2022    Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London 
2022    Short Film Programme, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable
2022    Commissions Premiere, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter