Philip Speakman
philipspeakman@hotmail.com
@philipspeakman
based in London.
It May Start Out as a Game...,
journal article, 2025
The Road That Eats Thoughts, live role play game, 1 hour, 2025
Reality Break, audio for radio, 16 minutes, 2024
Katabasing, XR performance, 20 minutes, 2024
A Self-Induced Hallucination, workshop, 2024
Chapel Perilous, moving image, 8 minutes, 2023
The Forked Path, moving image, 10 minutes, 2023
After Cottingley, engraved
mirror, 2023
The Fauna of Mirrors, sculptural moving image, 2 minutes, 2022
Transforming Through the Screen..., critical writing, 2022
No Flaming House, collaborative moving image, 13 minutes, 2021
The Err, outdoor sculpture, 2021
Tell, story telling sessions, 2018-2019
No Flaming House
collaborative moving image
12:25
2021
Developed through workshops with local teenagers, No Flaming House, employs Lakeland philosopher R G Collingwood’s idea of ‘historical imagination' to reconstruct the events around a rumoured plan to burn down a manor house in the English Lake District in the 1990’s.
Employing documentary methods to mine what truths a society expresses in it's rumours, No Flaming House was devised, filmed and performed by local young people through workshops with assistance from Jess Heritage as part of a young persons summer film school at Grizedale Art’s The Farmers Arms.
The film explores themes of national heritage and cultural identity, youth rebellion, rumour and romanticism, and filmmaking’s capacity as a tool for investigations at the boundary of the historical and the romantic imaginary. The work was filmed on location at Allan Bank, a property now managed by the National Trust which was once home to Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, before becoming a film set for Ken Russell and a hippy commune in the 70’s, histories the film wilfully entwines itself within in.
Made by and featuring; Bella Yoeman, Billy Kemp, Joseph Barnes, Francis Morgan, Iris Morgan, Rudy Morgan, through workshops run with Jess Heritage
Title art by Billy Kemp
Filmed at The Farmers Arms, Lowick Green and The National Trust’s Allan Bank, Grasmere
With thanks and support from Emma Sumner, Adam Sutherland, Harvey Wilkinson, The National Trust, Film & Video Unit, Central Saint Martins and Jo Evans & Chris Speakman.