All this can happen.

This is an arts film made by award-winning dance choreographer Siobhan Davies and film director David Hinton. Stylistically, the film draws on the work of French motion studies scientist Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904); his chronophotographic studies are referenced in the split screens, freeze frames and multi-layered framing. The narrative is provided by Swiss writer Robert Walser's (1878-1956) novella "The Walk", written in 1917. Walser the artist and writer-narrator is enraptured by the small things discovered on his wanderings which both delight and terrify him. The people, things and places are sensitvely portrayed, often in the literal sense, with surprisingly apt pre-1930s black and white (with some hand tinted film) footage sourced from a number of notable film collections including the Wellcome Library. Walser spent time with his sister who was a teacher in a mental asylum, he lost his brother to mental illness and spent time in a mental sanatorium in later life which might account for the sense of estrangement and existentialism in his writing and portrayed in this film.