A Secret Utopia
Lucy Ridgard

Hidden on the English east coast is a piece of magic: windswept white gold under limitless sky, lit up at night by shooting stars. But you won’t find it: it’s a secret utopia for locals and visiting seals. After WW2, it was a campsite for mothers and children; then a hippie hideout until the 90s, when ravers with sound systems had stumbled on a new lush scene to free party. For 20 years, these friends have returned for 6 summer weeks of dance, trance and spirituality, taking their kids and fragments of home – armchairs; a mantelpiece – to set up a brief escape from the binds of millennial hell.

Year of production: 2017