Three excerpts from poems which evoke ancient standing stones and stone circles, including one written in a Wiltshire dialect! These poems are a part of a history of megalithic structures in art which director Christopher Morris continues in his film A YEAR IN A FIELD. Available on Blu-ray now.

Director Christopher Morris interviewed by Will Sheff for the US premiere of A YEAR IN A FIELD as included in the limited edition Blu-ray extras. Available now at spectacularoptical.com (Canada) and severinfilms.com (US).

Director Christopher Morris and producer Denzil Monk discuss their film A YEAR IN A FIELD as part of the limited edition Blu-ray extras. Available now at spectacularoptical.com (Canada) and severinfilms.com (US).

Happy Birthday Robert Downey, Sr.! One of the most hilarious and confounding directors of the American underground, born on this day in 1936. Read more about him in our book TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER, available at spectacularoptical.com

June 21st is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the longest day of the year. The day also serves as the midpoint for the journey of A YEAR IN A FIELD which spans from winter solstice to winter solstice. The film is available now on Blu-ray and digital.

Just arrived to our shipper @screamandwrithe.bsky.social in Montreal! First-ever blu rays of A YEAR IN A FIELD. Canadian orders made direct from the Spectacular Optical website spectacularoptical.com start shipping today, all other orders ship via @severinfilms.bsky.social

New on the website: @kierlajanisse.bsky.social interviews legendary stuntman Gary Kent about the long-unseen film he directed, THE PYRAMID (1976). New restoration by AGFA plays LA this Thurs June 18th at Philosophical Research Society. spectacularoptical.com/articles/the...

A YEAR IN A FIELD showcases a year's worth of skies and seasons around Boscawen Ros, the ancient standing stone at its centre. This stunning, meditative film is available to order on Blu-ray now through severinfilms.com in the US and spectacularoptical.com in Canada.

Title treatment by Andy Votel for Devon Deimler's chapter on GREASER'S PALACE in TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER. See the film tomorrow night (Weds June 3) at @viffest.bsky.social in Vancouver, w/ an intro by the book's co-editor @kierlajanisse.bsky.social Tix at viff.org/whats-on/gre...

NOW LIVE: The new episode of @stephenbroomer.bsky.social's video essay series NORTHERN LIGHT exploring Canadian classics, hits + misfits: this time focused on Crawley Films' fungal farce AMANITA PESTILENS (1963) spectacularoptical.com/video-essays...

Whether ancient Druids used these stone monuments in their practice is debated, but stone circles and standing stones have remained a part of the spirituality of Neo-Druidry since its revival in the 18th century. See two of Cornwall's stone monuments in A YEAR IN A FIELD, blu ray pre-orders open now

DON JUAN OF THE LAWN: Obsession and Estrangement in AMANITA PESTILENS - the latest in @stephenbroomer.bsky.social 's video essay series NORTHERN LIGHT focused on Canadian cinema classics, hits and misfits. See it June 1st at spectacularoptical.com

Robert Downey, Sr.'s GREASER'S PALACE screens at @viffest.bsky.social in Vancouver Weds June 3rd with an introduction by co-editor @kierlajanisse.bsky.social who will be on hand with books for sale! Tix and details at: viff.org/whats-on/gre...

Spectacular Optical founder @kierlajanisse.bsky.social will be at @viffest.bsky.social in Vancouver on Weds June 3 to present a screening of Robert Downey, Sr.'s messianic acid western GREASER'S PALACE with copies of our book for sale! Details here: spectacularoptical.com/events/greas...

According to a 2025 study by the University of Portsmouth, rural areas in the UK are disproportionately affected by litter pollution. These clips show some of a year’s litter in a field in West Cornwall as depicted in the documentary A YEAR IN A FIELD. Blu ray pre-orders are open. Streaming now.

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