Secretly sharing the landscape with the living

A film by Martin A. Smith

Filmed on The Icknield Way, The Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire

Following in the footsteps of Edward Thomas

In 1911 Edward Thomas walked The Icknield Way, an ancient pathway that he called “a shining serpent in the wet”.

It runs from the Dorset coast to Norfolk, although as Thomas declared “I could not find a beginning or an ending to The Icknield Way.

It is thus a symbol of mortal things with their beginnings and ends always in immortal darkness.”

This film shows a stretch of The Icknield Way that runs through the Chiltern Hills, near Princes Risborough.

It is an area I know well, the path passes by a village where I used to live, and was filmed in the Winter of 2016

The film is featured on the website of Elsewhere: A Journal of Place
www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2016/3/1/film-secretly-sharing-the-landscape-with-the-living