The film focuses on two figures, sometimes Andrew Kötting, sometimes Toby Jones as the middle-aged John Clare. As they channel, in their own fashion, the psychic wound exposed by Clare. John Clare is alone, between the two communities of the Epping Forest asylum and the hospital in Northamptonshire. Kötting is dressed as a straw bear, (an alter-ego and metaphor for otherness). At the mercy of the voices and visions and the hard realities of the road.... eating the hedgerow,... (Full plot summary below)
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The film focuses on two figures, sometimes Andrew Kötting, sometimes Toby Jones as the middle-aged John Clare. As they channel, in their own fashion, the psychic wound exposed by Clare. John Clare is alone, between the two communities of the Epping Forest asylum and the hospital in Northamptonshire. Kötting is dressed as a straw bear, (an alter-ego and metaphor for otherness). At the mercy of the voices and visions and the hard realities of the road.... eating the hedgerow, sleeping on gravel, foot-foundered but determined. Framing the narrative momentum of the walk -- in the acoustic footsteps of Clare -- is the more complex drama of the two asylum interludes. The forest edge in High Beach, the meeting with the gypsies. The desperation of being lost, with no sense of direction, among the ancient trees. The actor Freddie Jones (father of Toby) plays the older Clare in his final Northamptonshire incarceration. At the point when his identity is lost.
Leave your thoughts about By Our Selves.
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonMesmerising, challenging and defiantly unique. |
| Film Ireland MagazineDee O'DonoghueKötting's gnomic mish mash of audio-visual experimentation is a deeply evocative sensory exploration that fuses the past and the present, the dramatized and the experimental and the simulated and the real... |
| Observer (UK)Mark KermodeThe result is typically idiosyncratic; often intriguing, sometimes insightful, occasionally exasperating. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsLike drinking some magic potion and experiencing the mind-warping after effects. And without the headache, too. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawBy the end of a long two hours, there’s not much life left. |
| Sight and SoundDavid JaysThere's a wilful eccentricity to all this. |
