WAYFARING STRANGER
Wayfaring Stranger charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven per formers, across seven days, representing seven decades. Running from the city, through post-industrial edge lands and manicured enclaves, they find themselves in forests, farms, mountains and the shore. Along the way, they undergo a transformation, through the seasons and changing geography, both physically and emotionally, from youth to elderhood, and from a single, alienated being into an accepted element of the wider world. Each ‘day ’ is a ‘station’ that signifies a turning point in a character’s emotional development : from escape, through loss, grief and waywardness, to solidarity and co-existence.
Filmed in landscapes marked by centuries of ceaseless, often destructive, human interaction, Wayfaring Stranger asks what it takes to find a liveable life on one’s own terms and without conflict with others and the environment.
Wayfaring Stranger (2024), by Andrea Luka Zimmerman will screen outside on the Wayfaring Cinema, supported by Thamesmead Texas.
Wayfaring Stranger screens on the Thamesmead Travelling Cinema, as part of Loosing the Plot #11
10:00 PM SATURDAY 7 JUNE 2025
Losing the Plot #11 floats down from the heavens to land at Burnlaw Centre in the North Pennines for the eleventh edition of this unusual, special and deep DIY gathering around cinema, friendship and discussion about everything in the world. The event consists of 8 film screenings spread over Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday, interspersed with collective meals, fires, walks, maybe swims, and if we are lucky a game of standing football.
The films at LTP span documentary, narrative and artists’ moving image, and are generally those that stray from convention. It is primarily a social space rather than a pure cinephile space, and it is family friendly.
Supported by Arts Council England, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Thamesmead Texas and Good Cave Projects.
