The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk

(16 minutes 30 seconds/16mm/2019)

We never speak of it, but here we know the land can’t be trusted. This film reinterprets a series of poems from the debut book of Cumbrian poet Kate Davis. It tells a personal narrative of contracting polio as a young girl, her subsequent disability and slow process of learning to walk again.

Find out more about Kate Davis here:
http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2018/06/the-girl-who-forgets-how-to-walk/

The film premiered at Alchemy Film Festival 2020 and an interview can be viewed here:
https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/festival-2020-i-cant-go-on-ill-go-on/