For Record Store Day 2024

The Other Side of the Forest – Full film streaming for free

Jowe Head’s wonderful vinyl soundtrack is now available to purchase on Record Store Day via Glass Modern Records

You can pick it up in all participating record stores. If you can’t make it to one you can hopefully purchase via Rough Trade (as well as many others) here –

And you can also pick up the equally wonderful Daga Daga Daga by Jowe and Eoic Soundtracks there too.

What is The Other Side of the Forest?

The Other Side of the Forest was a feature film project based on a short treatment by Ben Soper, written by Ashley Sutherland and Lori Stott, and directed by Grant McPhee

Anyone expecting a fast paced, traditionally structured drama will be deeply disappointed. Anyone expecting a horror film will be deeply disappointed and anyone expecting an art-house film will be deeply dissapointed.

Anyone expecting Big Gold Dream or Teenage Superstars will be even more dissapointed.

However, anyone who likes the 1960s and 1970s phantastique of Jean Rollin, Daisies, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders or Jess Franco may have their interest piqued.

Anyone who likes the above but with added elements of lofi 1960s pop video aesthetics, trashy exploitation rock films, underground filmmaking and self indulgence may even be quite keen.

And anyone who would prefer to have ‘ambient folk horror’ playing as background TV after a heavy night out (or in) might just really enjoy it….

It won ‘Best Experimental Film’ at the Arizona Film Festival and ”Best Experimental Film Bronze Award’ at the Fortean Film Festival

This is what it says on the tin…

“The Other Side of the Forest” is a fantasy Pop-Art Fairytale directed by Grant McPhee and starring Lori Stott and AshleySutherland.

It is the story of a shy young woman seeking her fame in the dark world of the 1960sfolk-music underground. Lori’s journey to stardom takes her on an adventure far beyond the music world she is trying to break into, and instead she travels to a forgotten past of rural landscapes, magic, myth, dead Gods and mysterious fallen angels.

In this fantastical world Lori meets a mysterious time-travelling guide (Ashley Sutherland) who helps her navigate the malevolent threat of the Swine-Folk, dead Pop-Stars and ultimately; uncovering the mystery of what lies on the other side of the forest.

It is a bold mix of influences covering 1960’s British Youth-Film such as “Smashing Time’,70s experimental films like Requiem For a Vampire, Carnaby Street news-reel and the Counter-Culture texts ‘The White Goddess’, ‘The House on the Borderland’ and ‘The Golden Bough’.

It plays with structure, form and narrative while simultaneously exploring genre tropes and musical group performances.

It was filmed with analogue sound and film equipment, incorporating various 16mm and Super8 processing techniques–hand developing, vintage cameras, sellotaped film editing, scratching, double exposures and film looping. The film was edited by Andy Morrison (Lord of the Rings, The English, Outlander, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Last Kingdom).The soundtrack is exclusively written by Post-Punk legend, Jowe Head (Swell Maps and Television Personalities).

The Other Side of the Forest is also known as ‘Lori and the Six Six Sixties’.

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