Official selection
Milwaukee Film Festival 2022
Calgary Underground Film Festival 2022
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2022
Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2022
Honors
Cream City Cinema Jury Award, Milwaukee Film Festival
Director
Oscar Harding
Executive Producer
Joe Pickett, Nick Prueher
Producer
Oscar Harding, Edward Lomas, Dominik Platen
Cast
Derrick Beckles, Oscar Harding, Karen Kilgariff, Joe Pickett, Nick Prueher
Cinematographer
Edward Lomas
Composer
Sam Paul Toms
Editor
Hannah Christensen
contact
Sonderbar Pictures
Attention, found-footage enthusiasts! Get ready to discover a real-life gem that’s equal parts morbid and hilarious, oddly endearing, and definitely stranger than fiction. Sixteen years ago, filmmaker Oscar Harding’s grandfather, who lived in the rural country of Somerset, England, sadly passed away. Amongst his possessions was a dusty VHS tape that was gifted to him by his quirky farmer neighbour named Charles Carson… But when Harding, who was still a young boy at the time, sat down with his family to watch the mysterious video, its bizarre contents quickly prompted his parents to shut it off. Over a decade later, having never quite forgotten about what he saw, he gave it another go and was immediately enthralled: between ceremonious cat funerals, skeleton tractor races, and explicit lessons in cow birthing, old Carson’s film was a wildly imaginative self-shot documentary about his everyday life at Coombe End Farm.
Paying tribute to all the aspiring filmmakers whose work remain in the shadows, A LIFE ON THE FARM also celebrates the legacy and surprisingly deep teachings of Charles Carson, a true undiscovered artist who epitomized “death positivity” before the movement even existed. First envisioned as a short film, this crowdfunded documentary features interviews with Carson’s friends and family members, as well as a variety of experts and new fans including Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher from The Found Footage Festival, who enlisted as executive producers after falling in love with the eccentric farmer. And we know you will, too! - Alyssia Duval-Nguon
Showings
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