OUT OF THE PEAT
1.66:1 • black & white • 12’30” • 2025

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.

Directors: Tabitha Carless-Frost, Theo Rollason 
Writer: Tabitha Carless-Frost
Producer: Tate Turnbull     
Cast: Roo Gehring 
DOP: Morgan K. Spencer 
Composer: Richard Skelton
Editor: Anthony Ing
Sound Design: Harry Charlton
Prop Design: Elizabeth Alster
Titles: Cameron Harris 

Acetate Pictures / BFI NETWORK
Super 16 mm film converted to digital
Shot on on location at Chat Moss, Lancashire


Upcoming Screenings:


Select Past Screenings: 
23/05/25 • Sunrise Film Festival, Lowestoft • Marina Theater
13/05/25 • OffBeat Folk Film Festival, London • The Garden Cinema
19/04/25 • AFSAD International Short Film Festival, Ankara • Büyülü Fener
04/04/25 • Resistance, Margate • Turner Contemporary
02/04/25 • Sound of Silent Film Festival, Chicago • with live accompaniment • Music Box Theater
21/01/25 • London Short Film Festival • UK
Competition: Panoramics • BFI Southbank NFT1