Marvell Park, Richard Layzell (2021)

5 June – 5 July 2023

To mark the upcoming screening of Richard Layzell’s first feature-length film, ‘Psychosomatic’, as part of the Highgate Festival, we are pleased to bring back ‘Marvell Park’ online for a month. (Originally screened from 1 April to 30 September 2021)

Layzell’s film performance ‘Psychosomatic’ will take place on 14 June, 7pm at the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution. Read more and book your ticket to the screening event here

Marvell Park is a new film produced by Richard Layzell as part of his ongoing work as LUX’s Creative Ecologist engaged with the material and context of Waterlow Park in Highgate where the organisation is based. Tracking the extraordinary ups and downs of 2020, the film is a playful and personal meditation on a state of being, of how to move and interact with nature and the space of the park in a time when the world was so tangibly in flux. It takes a long view of the changing seasons and the puzzling activities of humans and other wildlife. The film continues Layzell’s research project with maverick environmentalist Kino Paxton, The Naming. In this project, Layzell and Paxton seek to challenge and question how, through categorisation and naming, we distance ourselves from aspects of the natural world and the cultural world.

Watch Layzell’s 2020 work From Here to There reflecting on his walks to the park under lockdown.

Watch a recorded conversation with Layzell here