Project Detail

Out of the Peat

Name: Out of the Peat
Director: Tabitha Carless-Frost, Theo Rollason
Genre: Experimental, LGBTQIA+, Horror, Drama, Fantasy
Released: 2025
Duration: 12 min

Isabel MacCarthy

Synopsis

Flesh as film, and film as flesh... An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to excavate the peatland. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat - and into the past - they unearth much more than mere relics. The peat holds forgotten histories, uneasy truths, and vast stores of climate-change-accelerating carbon. Reflecting the attempt to document and preserve this landscape via the moving image, the film becomes both a lament and a call to action for local peat-bog restoration and protection. A queer eco-horror which reflects on what it means to bury, to archive, to capture, to unearth. Shot in collaboration with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, the film becomes both a lament and call to action for local peat-bog conservation.
Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2025

Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 12 min
Format: 16mm
Director: Tabitha Carless-Frost, Theo Rollason
Producer: Tate Turnbull
Executive Producer: Nicole Davis
Editor: Anthony Ing
Screenwriter: Tabitha Carless-Frost
Director of Photography: Morgan K. Spencer
Composer: Richard Skelton
Principal cast: Roo Gehring

Genre

Experimental LGBTQIA+ Horror Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Supported by BFI NETWORK

Acetate Pictures Ltd

Tate Turnbull

tate@acetatepictures.com

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