“Back in 1995 I found myself sitting round a fire on a protest camp in
Devon. I had spent the previous year or so living at and filming road protests and had managed to sell some of the footage to The Orb for their video Oxbow Lakes. Around the fire were a group of people who had been travelling the green lanes of the South West with handcarts, goats, donkeys and horses. I woke up the next morning realising that the only reason I had been living and working in London was to earn enough money so that I could go and live in the countryside, so why didn’t I just go and live in the countryside? I made a promise to the people round that fire that I would meet up with them again in a few weeks with my own horse drawn turnout.

A few weeks later I set off from Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria with a pair of fell ponies Hades Hill Oscar and Hades Hill Fenella a hand-cranked clockwork Russian super 8mm camera on a 9 month
journey that would take me to Cornwall and back and change my life
forever. It was an amazing time in my life.

I then sat on the film for 13 years without having even looking at it,
waiting to get the money together for a telecine and the right opportunity to use it.

Then I heard this track by Husky Rescue, started an edit and the footage came back to life. Gill Barron who features in the film sat with me one afternoon in my “chicken shed” and the words came pouring out.

And so began a whole new journey in trying to track down everyone in the film to get consent forms. Peoples lives had moved on. I tracked people down in Australia, in Spain, Portugal and have reconnected with so many people who I had lost touch with completely. Some had died.

It has been a pleasure to share that journey, and I hope the film might
inspire others to live out their dreams and to take the opportunity – Now! – to Live Before You Die.
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