Oxen Park Cinema Club

Wilding

The story of the Knepp estate and how a couple decided to rewild their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. The experiment reveals an untapped power of nature to rebound, and offers hope for conserving biodiversity the world over.
Wilding

Wilding

Sponsored by Vince and Annie Warwick

Showing: Sat 16 Nov 2024

Also Showing: Extra show on 16 Nov at 4pm

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Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book by the same title, Wilding tells the story of a young couple, Isabella and Charlie Tree, who in the 1980s inherit Knepp, a failing, four-hundred year-old estate.

By the end of the 1990s, facts must be faced: the farm isn’t working, and they are £1.5m in debt. The land is dying, the soil reduced to sterile dirt, with plummeting biodiversity levels.

Battling entrenched tradition, the couple dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature, with an ambitious rewilding project inspired by the thinking of European ecologists like Frans Vera. Ripping down the fences, and hoping to renew the growth of mycorrhizal fungi deep in the soil, they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild.

It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe.

* Showtimes: 4.00pm and 7.30pm

* Tickets: £4 Members, £6 Non-Members and £3 Under 18s.

* Please book tickets online before 12 noon on the day of the screening.