I may be a wage slave on Monday but I am a free man come Sunday

I may be a wage slave on Monday but I am a free man on Sunday is a lyric from a Ewan MacColl folk song, Manchester Rambler, in which he describes the mass trespass on the then private land of Kinder Scout in 1931. Inspired by this ‘mass trespass’ in the Peak District, which led to the opening up of the countryside & the creation of National Parks, Kathleen Herbert’s film explores the idea of contemporary landscape as a politicised space in which it is treated as an object rather than a resource. The viewer is taken on a journey through different visions of the land, from the urban spaces used to contrive a form of natural landscape to the rural. The raw contrasting soundtrack embellishes the imagery of the land as a lost ancient antiquity. The film was commissioned by Southbank, & The National Trust