Three films about land, belonging and the lives shaped by both. From traditional Somerset craft to a community confronting the legacy of colonial ownership in Kenya, The Ground Beneath Us asks what it means to belong to a place, and who gets to decide its future.

Moving from the visual transformation of a landscape, through the intimate relationship between people and their work, the programme culminates in a wider story about who controls the land and who bears the consequences.

Seating is unreserved. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the programme begins.

Raider — "Raider" spotlights an endless freight train as it cuts through the snowbound, high plains of Wyoming. Over time, the industrial noise recedes and gives way to stillness, to nature, to light. material.

Runtime: 3 minutes
Director: Greg Jenkins

Rush — RUSH, follows artist Ella Merriman as she harvests rush in Somerset’s slow flowing rivers, working with the endangered craft of rush basketry.Through Ella’s craft, rural and urban worlds meet, and each carefully designed piece becomes an organic love letter to nature, a reminder that when we are reunited with the land, we find belonging and remember practices we didn’t know we’d forgotten. As she weaves, picks, and knots in her London studio, Ella reflects on our culture of abundance and overconsumption, identifying that her endangered craft offers a way to return to our innate knowledge of weaving, making and mending – finding a sense of belonging within a forgotten material.

Runtime: 5 minutes
Director: Elizabeth Atherton

Kikuyu Land — In Kenya's tea highlands, one man's claim to his family's stolen land sets Mr. Mungai against a multinational giant, exposing buried histories and the unfinished business of colonial power.

Runtime: 96 minutes 
Director: Andrew H. Brown, Bea Wangondu