Lindisfarne Causeway

For three months, the filmmaker, Sammy, sat beside the Lindisfarne Causeway, a road that disappears into the sea twice a day. What happens to ethnography when one hangs out “deeply” at the side of a road?

The filmmaker uses boredom and daydreaming as an approach to getting to know a place. A poetic world of tarmac silence, howling seals, seaweed and ice-cream men. The Lindisfarne Causeway project was driven by Sammy’s attempt to let the road that connects Holy Island to the British Mainland ‘speak for itself’. Boredom and humming signal the beauty of a project that is as urgent as it is impossible.