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We’re thrilled to share the official trailer for The Land Remains.
This September, The Land Remains will tour cinemas and special venues across South West England.
Each date is a special event screening featuring filmmaker @deadbeatboris in conversation with guest speakers, exploring the film’s themes of belonging, migration and our connection to the land.
Britain is an island shaped by memory, migration and the persistence of the past in the present.
Over the course of a year, filmmaker Boris Thompson-Roylance documented pre-Christian ceremonies and seasonal traditions across the country. These pagan practices follow the Wheel of the Year, structured around solstices, equinoxes and moments of transition.
Set against these rituals of return and renewal, The Land Remains asks how myth and landscape are used to define the idea of Britain - and how land, migration and belonging continue to shape national identity today.
The film features prominent voices from the folk community, including folk singer and song collector @samleesong, and alchemist and apothecarist @pulvers.apothecary.
Book tickets:
https://stoneclub.rocks/events/the-land-remains-screening-tour
SCREENING DATES
B-Side Arts Festival @bsidefestival
Portland — 12 September
Totnes Cinema @totnes_cinema
Totnes — 14 September
Verdant Taproom @verdant_taproom
Penryn — 15 September
Careys Secret Garden @careyssecretgarden
Wareham — 16 September
Strode Theatre @strodetheatre
Street — 17 September
Exeter Phoenix @exeterphoenixgallery
Exeter — 22 September
Plymouth Arts Cinema @plymartscinema
Plymouth — 23 September
The Engine Room @somerset.film
Bridgwater — 25 September
13 Aug 2026
Exclusive first look at @deadbeatboris’s experimental short, Listen To The Voices of The Past / 「過去からの声を聴け」
Filmed at sacred British standing stone sites, including Avebury and Stanton Drew, the work is a cross-cultural exchange project, exploring Japanese and British folklore, stillness, silence and movement, reflecting on landscape, ritual and memory.
The film will have its world premiere at MMAC2.0 Festival in Tokyo at Striped House Gallery. September 7th 2026.
Melanie Thompson and Boris Thompson-Roylance are visual artists from the UK.
Together with butoh performer Masamichi Shibasaki from Fukushima, they will develop a collaborative series of interventions and performances during a three-day residency prior to the festival, working with sound, film and found objects, exploring cultures, traditions and histories.
Boris brings the film to Tokyo and is joined by Melanie Thompson, a site-specific performance artist whose practice resonates with Shibasaki’s butoh while remaining distinctly her own. The three artists explore both the shared ground and the points of divergence in their practices, considering art as a means of illuminating the past while questioning contemporary life.
On 7 September, from 13:00 to 18:00, the artists will maintain an evolving presence within the gallery. Working individually, in pairs and together, they will create a series of unfolding interventions that invite festival visitors to enter, observe and participate in an immersive, continually changing environment.
Film credits
Butoh Performer Masamichi Shibasaki 柴崎正道 @ms48sk
Film Director & Editor @deadbeatboris
Cinematographer @dom_lake
Costume Design Katsumi Kishi
Production Assistant George Freeman
Colourist @maraciroba @harborpictureco_uk
Music & Sound @toddspeakman
Title Design @cameronjlwest
Creative Consultant Yasuyuki Saegusa
Equipment @cameraone
Production Company @deadbeatfilms
Special Thanks
Melanie Thompson @melart55
Paul Roylance @instarhino
The project is part funded by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation @GBSSasakawa
04 Aug 2026
Merriest Solstice!
To celebrate we are excited to announce the South West screening tour of The Land Remains, with filmmaker @deadbeatboris joining each screening for a Q&A alongside special guests.
Filmed over the course of a year, The Land Remains journeys through Britain’s pre-Christian ceremonies, seasonal traditions, and pagan practices, exploring the relationship between myth, landscape, migration, and national identity.
Join us for screenings, conversations, and a chance to delve deeper into the stories, histories, and beliefs that continue to shape Britain today.
Dates and tickets via the link in bio.
Poster design: @cameronjlwest
21 Jun 2026
Samhain. The most magical, mystical time of the year. The end and the beginning of the Celtic year. When the veil is at its thinnest and we are the most connected to the spirit realm.
The leaves are falling, fruit is perishing, the earth is the closest to death it will ever be. So it is a time for us to connect with ancestors. A time to drift, dream and vision.
I’ve been grateful to share space with wisdom keepers who channel Earths mysteries in their own way. Apothecarist and alchemist @pulvers.apothecary, storyteller Jane Flood, and experience the best of Samhain traditions and Lewes Bonfire Night and Ottery St Mary Tar Barrel ceremony.
Travel wisely and see you on the other side. 🍁
05 Nov 2026
“It allowed a freedom to be a lot more experimental and not be sort of trapped by the form.”
The Land Remains, in conversation with Boris Thompson-Roylance after the Dolby Atmos screening at Polygon Portal, Soho. @polygon.live
Directed by @deadbeatboris / @deadbeatstudios
@dolby Atmos Mix: @alriley
Score by Todd Speakman
03 Nov 2026
Summer truly delivered this year. I finally did what most normal people do and took an actual holiday, in Greece, with my friends, rather than hiking up mountains and exhausting myself.
I love my friends, they’re all extremely talented and belong in a Fellini movie.
Photography by @deadbeatjack @fawnakate @ellieslwalker
21 Oct 2026
It’s been just over a month since my trip to Japan with @melart55, creating, co-directing and performing a 5 hour durational performance installation.
Alongside friend and collaborator, the Butoh performer, @ms48sk, we spent a week in research and development in a small gallery south of Tokyo.
The material was inspired by my most recent film ‘Listen to the Pasts Long Pulse’, which we brought to life in the performance using elements of immersive cinema.
We were also exploring contact release work and themes of folklore, identity and ritual. The work was performed to an intimate audience at Striped House Gallery, as part of MMAC.20 festival.
It was wonderful sharing the work with the Tokyo experimental art scene, and building friendships and relationships with local artist and galleries and @jpbritish .
The work was part funded by the @gbsasakawa . We have exciting plans for the future of this project, and look forward to sharing them with you all soon!
11 Oct 2026
📽️ Join us for a film night of music, folklore and liminal thresholds with filmmakers @deadbeatboris and @4d4m_c4rr at @margateartsclub PLUS SURPRISE FEATURE FILM with Director Q&A which will be announced 17 October!
📅 Wednesday 28 October
🕯️ Doors 5:30pm–10pm
📍 Margate Arts Club, 276 Northdown Road, Margate CT9 2PT
🎟️ Ticket link in bio. Browse thru our event listings and find Dead Good Films!
📽️ As the nights draw in and the veil begins to thin, gather with us for an evening of mystery.
📽️ This is a specially curated selection of films exploring liminal worlds, ancient landscapes, sacred sites, ancestral echoes, shapeshifting creatures and the strange spaces between the human and other-than-human.
📽️ THE PROGRAMME…
📽️ 6pm — Listen to the Past’s Long Pulse + The Land Remains
with director Boris Thompson-Roylance + Q&A
📽️7pm —Selkie, Adam Carr’s award-nominated, mythic vision of the legendary seal-folk of Celtic and Norse folklore.
📽️ 8pm — ✨ SURPRISE FEATURE FILM ✨
Director Q&A
Film will be announced 17 October!
🎥 Q&As with the directors
🎥 Ancient traditions & folk magic
🎥 Myth, landscape & ritual
🎥 Strange encounters & otherworldly worlds
📽️ Come gather in the dark. The old stories are still alive!!
#DeadGoodFestival #Samhain
06 Oct 2026
The Land Remains South West cinema tour is over and it’s been incredible! 🏁🎉
I’ve felt like a travelling salesman, driving from county to country, sharing the work at independent cinemas and community screenings to local audiences.
Each screening has been supported by a site specific guest speaker, elaborating on the films themes of British belonging, national identity, connection to the land and migration.
And this is only the beginning! The tour was a roaring sold out success, deepened by incredibly meaningful questions and observations from the audience.
I’m going to take a short break to rest and focus on other projects, but expect announcements for a new run of shows in the Spring.
A huge thank you so much to all the cinemas and contributors involved, I am eternally grateful for your support of the project.
@the.stone.club @matthew___shaw @lallymacbeth @thefolkarchive
Cinemas / event spaces:
@bsidefestival @totnes_cinema @verdant_taproom @brewingfolk @careyssecretgarden @strodetheatre @exeterphoenixgallery @plymartscinema @encounterssff @somerset.film @somerset_art_works
Guest Speakers / Performers:
@jackharries @wildtales.earth @kate.fleur.young Les Davies, Portland Friendship Group, Pippa Marriott
27 Sep 2026
One week to go until The Land Remains South West tour begins! 🎉
Filmed across the Wheel of the Year, the film explores British ritual and tradition-and our relationship with identity, migration, belonging and the land.
Making the film has been a deeply cathartic journey: collaborating with some brilliant humans (composer @toddspeakmansound and cinematographer @deadbeatjack getting a special mention) and learning an extraordinary amount about this country, its landscape and its history along the way.
I’d particularly like to thank @matthew___shaw and @lallymacbeth of @the.stone.club , who have been massive rocks (no pun intended) in supporting the distribution.
The tour begins on 12 September. Follow the link in my bio to find your nearest screening and book tickets.
I look forward to seeing you there.
1-4. The Obby Oss, Padstow, Cornwall
5. The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles. Their Nature and Legacy - Ronald Hutton
6. The Long Man Pilgrimage, Lewes, Sussex
7-11. Stone Henge, Summer Solstice, Wiltshire
12. The Shortest History of Migration - Ian Goldin
13-15. The Bibby Stockholm Barge. Portland, Dorset
16. The Sphinx & The Megaliths - John Ivimy
17. The Ottery St Mary Tar Barrell Tradition, Ottery St Mary, Devon
18. A Seventh Man - John Berger
06 Sep 2026
Britain can be understood as an island shaped by ritual, migration and the persistence of the past in the present.
In The Land Remains, filmmaker @deadbeatboris places Britain’s renewed interest in folklore and ritual in dialogue with the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge, exploring how land, migration and belonging shape ideas of national identity.
Boris Thompson-Roylance is a visual artist, director and co-founder of the multi-award-winning Deadbeat Studios. His work spans documentary, fiction and installation, with a focus on identity, ecology, folklore and subculture.
Join us for a special one-off screening on Monday 14th September. Boris & @jackharries of @wildtales.earth will be joining us at Totnes Cinema to introduce the screening, followed by a post-screening discussion about the themes and questions it raises.
Doors open at 7pm. Film starts at 8pm.
#thelandremains #britishfolklore #totnescinema #ʙᴏᴏᴋɴᴏᴡ #documentary
06 Sep 2026
Made Japanese press with @melart55 and @ms48sk 🇯🇵📰🪭
Tokyo friends, join us on Monday September 7th, for a real time performance installation.
Pop in anytime from 13:00-18:00.
Free Entry.
Striped House Gallery.
〒106-0032 Tokyo, Minato City, Roppongi, 5
As part of MMAC2.0 Festival, mother-and-son visual artists Boris Thompson-Roylance and Melanie Thompson join butoh performer Masamichi Shibasaki in a five-hour performance installation exploring British and Japanese identity, ritual and sanctuary.
We will create a series of unfolding interventions throughout the gallery, inviting visitors to enter, observe and participate in an immersive environment that continually changes over the course of the day.
04 Sep 2026
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