Le Guin’s words are taken from the foreword to her poetry collection LATE IN THE DAY, they also serve as the opening words to Christopher Morris’ A YEAR IN A FIELD. Using the landscapes of West Cornwall the meditative film explores our relationship with the natural world. Blu ray pre-orders open now

Me & Bill Ackerman (Supporting Characters podcast) hunt for the rural Georgia locations from Southern sleaze classic POOR PRETTY EDDIE (1975), joined by Klon Waldrip of the Late List podcast - full story and pics at: spectacularoptical.com/articles/poo...

Come hang out with an ancient standing stone in A YEAR IN A FIELD - now on TVOD in the US and available for pre-order on collectible blu ray in US from severinfilms.com (with exclusive perks) or in Canada (blu ray only) from spectacularoptical.com

Buttercups and storm clouds earlier on Glastonbury Tor.

A YEAR IN A FIELD The first release from @spectacularoptical.bsky.social is BAFTA-winning documentarian Christopher Morris’ 2023 film A Year in a Field, a “thoughtful, meditative documentary”(The Guardian) and “a quietly devastating piece of work”(Cine Europa). [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/LFHRp9OQyOI

Congratulations to BOSENA bosena.co.uk , the producers of A YEAR IN A FIELD, on their certification as a B Corporation (TM) which means that they have joined the growing hive of businesses who are leading a global movement for an inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy. Read more at bcorp.com

Some details from our blu ray wrap for Christopher Morris' A YEAR IN A FIELD, designed by Steven Key/Of Stick & Bone, who said: "Rewatching the film, I was particularly struck by the way it shifts between macro and micro viewpoints. [cont'd]

Standing stones have lived in British art from Derek Jarman’s Avebury Series of paintings and film A JOURNEY TO AVEBURY, to Ben Nicholson’s relief “February 1956 (menhir).” A YEAR IN A FIELD continues this rich history, and creates a beautiful meditation on nature and our place in it. Now streaming.

Get the MONOLITHS bundle featuring A YEAR IN A FIELD with a set of 4 ceramic standing stone coasters, designed by Sight Study Art & Design with pics taken by @kierlajanisse.bsky.social ! Limited edition and exclusively available at @severinfilms.bsky.social here: severinfilms.com/en-ca/collec...

***NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT*** A YEAR IN A FIELD [ORDER LINK & FULL SPECS] severinfilms.com/collections/...

SPECTACULAR OPTICAL RELEASES "A YEAR IN A FIELD" ON COLLECTORS’ EDITION BLU RAY - see all the details on extras, packaging and perks in this trailer we cut below! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjBb...

NEW ep of @stephenbroomer.bsky.social's NORTHERN LIGHT video essay series on Canadian classics, hits & misfits: THE NAKED FLAME (aka DEADLINE FOR MURDER, 1964), canuxploitation set in the fictional Alberta mining town of Little Creek. See it at spectacularoptical.com

FURNACES OF FREEDOM: ECSTASY AND ASSIMILATION IN THE NAKED FLAME - a new video essay by @stephenbroomer.bsky.social as part of our NORTHERN LIGHT series focused on Canadian classics, hits & misfits. See it May 1 at spectacularoptical.com

Here's @spectacularoptical.bsky.social founder @kierlajanisse.bsky.social talking a bit about why the label branched out into film distribution and more about the films chosen to kick off the initiative, including a very special partnership with @severinfilms.bsky.social !

Mariclare Costello, the sinister Emily/Abigail Bishop from LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH has passed away. The image of her emerging from the water to torment the fragile title character was imprinted onto the psyches of many a young horror fan, myself included.

Thanks to the Olive Network for plugging our A YEAR IN A FIELD as its Earth Day Featured Story! A lot of great info here. olivenetwork.org/Issue/p-clas...

A YEAR IN A FIELD - now streaming on-demand on Youtube Premium (US & Canada) and Amazon Prime, Hoopla and Google Play (US), with more to come! Also screening on the BIG screen tonight at the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon for Earth Day! Get in touch if you'd like to book it for your cinema or film club!

"positions a Cornish standing stone as marker of the anthropocene’s beginning and end": for this Earth Day, Christopher Morris’ static yet activist film essay A YEAR IN A FIELD (2022) is now on US TVOD via @spectacularoptical.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2023/09/20/a...

This #earthday see A YEAR IN A FIELD on the big screen at the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon! Weds April 22 ! If you love the mystery of standing stones, incredible folk music, the quiet wonder of nature and/or are very concerned about the climate crisis, this film is for you. Tix: www.roxysaskatoon.ca

Photos from our reading yesterday with @kierlajanisse.bsky.social / @spectacularoptical.bsky.social 🎬 Thank you to our friends at the Calgary Underground Film Festival for making this happen!

Today at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social in Calgary 4:00pm co-presented by Calgary Underground FF! I'll be talking about our Robert Downey Sr. book w/ some clips + reading from my book COCKFIGHT. The store will have these and other books in stock, like SATANIC PANIC, HOPW + YULETIDE TERROR!

"An ancient monolith stands sentinel in a Cornish field for millennia. Part provocation, part meditation, part invocation, BAFTA-winning documentarian Christopher Morris’s A YEAR IN A FIELD is a record of their brief interaction." Now booking in North America from spectacularoptical.com

Thanks to Shelagh Rowan-Legg at @screenanarchy.bsky.social for sharing the news about Spectacular Optical's new foray into film distribution! screenanarchy.com/2026/04/-spe...

SPECTACULAR OPTICAL LAUNCHES FILM DISTRIBUTION BRANCH - First Slate of Titles Includes new restorations of Waris Hussein’s MELODY (1971), Bert Deling’s PURE SHIT (1975) and Andrew Horn’s DOOMED LOVE (1984), plus BAFTA Award Winning Documentarian Christopher Morris’ A YEAR IN A FIELD (2023) and more

BIG NEWS!! spectacularoptical.com/news/spectac...

Kier-La Janisse will be reading + signing at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social in Calgary on Saturday April 18th to plug Spectacular Optical's two most recent books TRUTH & SOUL and COCKFIGHT spectacularoptical.com/events/kier-...

For those who celebrate Easter Weekend, here's Allan Arbus as Jesse in Robert Downey Sr.'s messianic western, GREASER'S PALACE, and the full page ads that promoted it in The Village Voice in Dec 1972. Read all about it in our book TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER at spectacularoptical.com

MAN OF THE YEAR: Debt and Redemption in SKIP TRACER A new video essay by @stephenbroomer.bsky.social on Zale Dalen's 1977 cult classic, starring David Petersen in one of the most indelible performances in Canadian film history. See it now at spectacularoptical.com

Tomorrow! The new episode of @stephenbroomer.bsky.social's NORTHERN LIGHT video essay series (on Canadian classics, hits and misfits) goes live on spectacularoptical.com, this time covering what may be my all-time favourite Canadian feature film: Zale Dalen's SKIP TRACER (1977).

Less than a week til the German premiere of THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM at @finalgirlsberlin.bsky.social !! Playing as part of the "Nightmares" short film program - Get tix here: www.finalgirlsberlin.com/2026/shorts8

Now live on spectacularoptical.com - The newest episode of @stephenbroomer.bsky.social's NORTHERN LIGHT video essay series on Canadian classics, hits and misfits, this time focused on Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell's YOU ARE ON INDIAN LAND (1969). spectacularoptical.com/video-essays...

In Cornwall last fall for a *soon-to-be-announced* Spectacular Optical project, we stopped by the hotel from Nicolas Roeg's 1990 adaptation of THE WITCHES

Just Announced! THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM will have its German Premiere at @finalgirlsberlin.bsky.social on March 7th - details on their website here: www.finalgirlsberlin.com/2026/shorts8

Now live on spectacularoptical.com - the latest instalment of @stephenbroomer.bsky.social 's video essay series on Canadian classics, hits and misfits, NORTHERN LIGHT - this time focused on Martin Duckworth and Pat Crawley’s ACCIDENT (1973).

Next month on @stephenbroomer.bsky.social 's video essay series NORTHERN LIGHT: FALLING FROM THE SKY: ACCIDENT (1973) AS TESTIMONAL DOCUMENTARY - see it February 1 at spectacularoptical.com

New episode of @stephenbroomer.bsky.social 's NORTHERN LIGHT went live on Spectacular Optical today! This month the spotlight is on Leonard Yakir's 1972 Winnipeg documentary MAINSTREET SOLDIER: spectacularoptical.com/video-essays...

Next on @stephenbroomer.bsky.social 's Northern Light: WAR AT HOME: MAINSTREET SOLDIER AS ANTI-EPIC: "Broomer situates Leonard Yakir’s celebrated short film in the context of CanLit’s disillusioned anti-heroes, and the tensions of performance in cinema verité." Jan 1 @ spectacularoptical.com

Since 'tis the season for all things ghostly, here's Ben Petrie who played The Porter in THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM talking about the ghost stories that have most affected him. The film is playing tomorrow (Dec 23) in Seattle at The Beacon Cinema w/ SCHALCKEN THE PAINTER! vimeo.com/1148734613/7...

Slipcase editions of our Robert Downey Sr. book TRUTH & SOUL have shipped! Thanks to Taylor at scream&writhe distro for getting them out the door so quick as soon as they arrived from the printer ! There are a limited number still available at spectacularoptical.com

So now that a few of you have had a chance to watch my film THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM, here's me blabbing about a few of the films that were influences on it! (and don't worry there are no actual spoilers in this video) vimeo.com/1146798514/f...

Just over a week til the inaugural Winter's Wake - a celebration of the seasonal ghost story on Pender Island, BC, Canada - featuring the gulf islands premiere of THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM. Few tickets remain: share.google/BGJvVgsrTHQl...

UPDATED SCREENINGS! More screenings for THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM added: Dec 6th at @triskelartscentre.bsky.social w BLACK CHRISTMAS, Dec 23 at the Beacon in Seattle w A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS, and Dec 30 at Stray Cat Film Center in KCMO w/ Sean Hogan's "To Fire You Come at Last"

THE TRAGEDY OF THE VIKING The new video essay in @stephenbroomer.bsky.social 's monthly series NORTHERN LIGHT focused on Canadian classics, hits and misfits. Now live at spectacularoptical.com

MJ's @themeatispeople.bsky.social says, "THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM is the sort of film that is haunting in the truest sense, its chill settling deep in the bones." Check out @kierlajanisse.bsky.social first narrative outing streaming on @shudder.com #theoccupantoftheroom #nowstreaming #shudder

NEW episode of @stephenbroomer.bsky.social 's video essay series NORTHERN LIGHT is up! This one exploring the tragic tale of George Melford and Lewis Varick Frissell’s The Viking (1931) spectacularoptical.com/video-essays...

Our Holiday gift guide! spectacularoptical.com/articles/ess...

Upcoming screenings for THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM, beginning tomorrow with its premiere on @shudder.com as part of annual series THE HAUNTED SEASON (in all their territories!) Scan through the list to see if it is coming to a theatre near you!

Stephen Broomer's NORTHERN LIGHT video essay series continues next month with "The Tragedy of The Viking" - his examination of George Melford and Lewis Varick Frissell’s The Viking (1931), dropping Monday December 1st at spectacularoptical.com

CHICAGO! Here's a chance to see my short film THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM on the big screen, in support of the gorgeous, snowy sequel THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE. What an inspired pairing! Sunday Dec 7th at 6:45pm at the historic @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

Trailer and premiere date revealed for Kier-La Janisse’s Shudder chiller “THE HAUNTED SEASON: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM” https://ow.ly/3vzw50XvRhn