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An extract from the 1953 BFI documentary directed by Dudley Shaw Ashton and narrated by Cecil Day-Lewis.

Figures in a Landscape was one of the first films backed by the BFI Experimental Film Fund. Ashton had access to Hepworth鈥檚 Trewyn Studio (now the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Garden) in Cornwall and the Cornish settings that inspired her work.

The film's innovative use of camera movement, alongside Priaulx Rainier鈥檚 score and future Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis鈥檚 narration of writer Jacquetta Hawkes鈥� words, make it a collaborative artwork in its own right.

The Belgian author and documentarist Henri Storck credited it with a 鈥渦nique and mysterious quality鈥�.

Film, 16mm, transferred to digital colour. Courtesy British Film Institute.