May Day at Cerne Abbas, Dorset | Un/Common People: Folk Culture in Wessex

This sensitive film captures the beginning of May through the joyful eyes of the ‘Merry Wessex Morris Men’. Every year in May people gather at dawn near the chalk carving of the giant in Cerne Abbas, to welcome in the summer, drink local ale, sing and dance and scare the children with the mystical and striking Ooser.

This film is part of the Un/Common People: Folk Culture in Wessex exhibition, a major touring exhibition by Wessex Museums.

Credits
Create Studios
Gurch Singh, Director
Kiara Wakeley, Production Manager
Caitlin Amer, Editor
Tom Arthur, Photographer
Faraz Falahi and Charlie McCrae, Production Assistants
Jacob Leighfield, Sound
James Willmott, DOP

The exhibition has been made possible with support from @TheNationalLotteryHeritageFund, @artscouncilofengland, and The Swire Charitable Trust. #folk #folkculture #britishtradition #GreatWishford #OakAppleDay #Wiltshire #traditions #folkart #exhibition #englishfolk #local #history #localhistory #wessex #wiltshire #dorset

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Excellent video- So interesting-Many thanks