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Edited Apr 12, 2015, 13:32
Re: Rural British strangeness in books, music + films
Apr 12, 2015, 13:30
thesweetcheat wrote:
There's an emerging thing of semi-rural writings, focussing on landscapes of pylons,deserted b-roads and abandoned railway lines. I think the term "edgeland" has been coined for it.

Here's one website (the creator is an occasional TMA contributor):

http://landscapism.blogspot.co.uk/

And another, illustrations on a similar theme:

https://maximpetergriffin.wordpress.com/


Eddie Procter (Landscapism) is a great collector. Two films which he has mentioned in the past months I have watched recently, 'Pendas's Fen'. Made in 1970, it is like an old classic, weird and slowly menacing....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-YCj8OnEMo

And then there is the video of Nick Drake - A Skin Too Few - it catches the depression of Nick and its darkness......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrmR_F5XgwQ
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