Director Francis Lee creates a visual meditation on his cultdebut feature God’s Own Country (2017) through on-setphotography, stills, personal scrapbooks, moodboards, castingtapes, and his original screenplayRevisits the film’s celebrated exploration of lived Queerexperience in rural Yorkshire and its far-reaching influence onQueer representation in cinemaIncludes a foreword by Lee, an in-conversation with leadingactors Josh O’Connor and Alec Secareanu, and an interviewwith Lee by Variety film critic Guy Lodge delving into the film’sconception and influencesUpon its release in 2017, Francis Lee’s debut film God’s Own Country becamean instant modern classic, beloved for its frank and revelatory representation ofQueer experience in rural Yorkshire. Lee’s story of an unlikely romance between asubdued young farmer and a Romanian migrant worker weaves a complex tale ofisolation and intimacy, shame and redemption, all played out against the savagebeauty of England’s northern countryside.This book, released to mark the film’s tenth anniversary, presents an immersivedocument of Lee’s working process, bringing together a plethora of materials:scrapbooks and moodboards, to reference images by photographers Bill Brandtand Collier Schorr and excerpts from the original script, call sheets, and castingtapes. Stills and on-set photography by Jack Barnes and Agatha Nitecka capturethe majesty and brutality of the film’s world. An introduction by Lee providesdeeply personal insight into the film’s conception, and is expanded by an in-conversation between Lee and stars Josh O’Connor and Alec Secareanu and aninterview with Variety film critic Guy Lodge, in which Lee discusses his approachto filmmaking and the influences of the New Queer Cinema movement of 1990sBritain. God’s Own Country celebrates a narrative of self-discovery, love, and tiesto the ground we work and live on.
