Tabitha Carless-Frost
Directing
Biography
Carless-Frost is a queer writer & filmmaker. Their work explores themes of haunting, trauma, queer identities, and ecological preservation. They are the writer-director of Out of the Peat, an ecological horror short film supported by the BFI Network Film Fund and made in collaboration with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust. Shot on black-and-white Super 16 film, the project intertwines the discovery of "bog bodies," the othering of queer bodies, and the environmental urgency of peatland restoration. They are also a doctoral researcher in Creative Writing at Brunel University, supervised by Booker Prize winner Professor Bernardine Evaristo.
Known For
An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to excavate the peatland. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat — and into the past — they unearth much more than mere relics.
Out of the Peat
Born from 1970s community action to resist planned Docklands development, Mudchute Park and Farm has been preserved as one of the UK's largest urban farms and a vital community space - but today its future is uncertain.