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 and is self-distributed. Please contact the artist directly to organise an exhibition or screening of the work.

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

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Selected exhibitions and screenings

Toward The Forest, Forma, London, 2025
Fieldwork on Film, Atlas Cinema, London, 2025
Absent Forces, Open City Documentary Festival, London, 2024
Free to Forage, T A P E Collective x Grand Union, Birmingham, 2024
Two Films, Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne, 2023 – 2024
Spirit Messages international screening tour, aemi, 2023 – 2024
Year 3, Prismatic Ground, New York, 2023 
Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London, 2022
Short Film Programme, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, 2022
Commissions Premiere, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, 2022