PATHMAGIC
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SOUTH WEST COAST PATH
Six hundred and thirty miles, seven weeks, two people and one phone.
Two London friends discover the 630-mile South West Coast Path. Exhaustion, wild weather and the unknown give way to a liberating, sensory exhibition of one of Britain’s best-loved trails.
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Keep the sea on your right.
Minehead to Poole. Six hundred and thirty miles and 115,000 feet of ascent — no mountains, just hundreds of brutal climbs in and out of coves, one after another, for seven weeks. Britain's longest waymarked path, and one of its hardest. The navigation fits in a single instruction: keep the sea on your right.
What the instruction doesn't tell you is what the coast does to you. It starts as fear and physical pain and the arithmetic of how far is left. Somewhere in the middle it stops being arithmetic. The wind, the weather turning four times a day, the people you meet for an afternoon who then matter for years — the walk finds a rhythm that has nothing to do with distance covered.
By the Undercliff, where the path drops into miles of landslip forest with no way out until the far end, the trail has stopped being a route. It has become a place you are inside of. That shift is the film's actual subject.
One phone. No crew. No second take.
The entire film was shot on an iPhone 14 Pro. No lights, no crew, a stripped-back sound setup, and nobody there but the two of us. Everything used to make it had to be carried up every one of those climbs, which is the honest reason it looks the way it does — and the reason nothing in it is staged. There was no one to stage it for.
That constraint shows in the form. The film begins with the immediacy of a vlog, finds a narrative shape in the middle, and opens into something fully cinematic by the end. It wasn't planned that way. It's what happened to us over 630 miles, and the edit followed it rather than imposing on it.
The making carried on after the walking stopped. Cellist Katrin Langewellpott met us on the trail in 2023, later contributed music, and helped bring the film to its first audience in Osnabrück, where the three of us stayed on afterwards to talk. That is how Pathmagic works: walk the path, film what actually happens, and let the right people arrive at the right time.
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A FILM BY
Andrew Okello & Sean Lewis
Directed, filmed and walked by Andrew Okello and Sean Lewis
TRAIL
South West Coast Path
WRITTEN BY
Andrew Okello, Sean Lewis
CAST
Andrew Okello, Sean Lewis, Ieke Benschop
PATH ANGELS
SIMON & COLEEN, JOHN & PAT, BAY VIEW FARMERS CAMPING AND CARAVAN SITE, JOHN & CAROL, CATHY & WILL - CADGWITH CAMPING, PAUL & LOUISE, TRACEY, DOM, MEL, ERIN, ZAC, SMAVE, THEO, INDI
SPECIAL THANKS
JASON ISAACS, GILLIAN ANDERSON, ELIZABETH KARLSEN, MARIANNE ELLIOTT, HELLY & HACK, KATRIN LANGEWELLPOTT, IEKE BENSCHOP, JURRIAAN, PHILIPA & ARTHUR, CHLOE & LUNA & LILY LEWIS
MUSIC
KATRIN LANGEWELLPOTT, GUY JONES, THEO BARD, AKS, LINA HALBERGER, THE KING'S SINGERS, YONDER DALE, HEEMUT SCHENKER, ALEX-GLASGOW, VICTOR LUNDBERG, TOM GOSS, DYLAN C. JONES, SHUTA YASUKOCHI, PARALLAX DEEP, BENEDICT EDWARDS, CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, SAM RICHARDSON, TONY ANDERSON, LOTUS, PUCCINI (KATRIN LANGEWELLPOTT), BONN FIELDS
GRAPHICS
DENNIS SISTERSON, CHRIS SKY, DAVID LEWIS, SMUGGLER'S POEM - RUDYARD KIPLING
SOUNDMIX
DOMINIC LEWIS
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