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202610 minPGdocumentary

Ouroboros

202610 minPGdocumentary

Highgate Cemetery's gothic architecture and nature-reclaimed landscapes are explored through staff perspectives on death and remembrance.

“Where nature reclaims what we leave behind”

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Highgate Cemetery's gothic architecture and nature-reclaimed landscapes are explored through staff perspectives on death and remembrance.

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Twiggy Cheungdirector

Rachel Gibson-Duffwriter

Madeleine Laverswriter

Gordon Wolffecast

Sam Stark Kempcast

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Ouroboros delicately captures Highgate Cemetery’s gothic architecture, ivy-draped tombs, and nature-reclaimed landscapes, drawing on staff perspectives to reconsider ideas of death, remembrance and everyday work there.

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