Nocturne for a Lighterman

Overlapping emotional undercurrents between an ancestor and an artist on the River Thames in Victorian England. Written in Neo-symbolist mode, with contemporary footage from the same point of view as the painting.

Sarah Tremlett, United Kingdom, 2025, 5 min, non-verbal with hardcoded English text

About the Artist

Sarah Tremlett is a prizewinning, British poetry filmmaker, poet, artist and theorist. She is author of ‘the groundbreaking industry bible The Poetics of Poetry Film, (Intellect, 2021) available in over 650 academic libraries alone, worldwide. She is editor of Liberated Words and founded the Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow ekphrastic poetry film prize and bilingual poetry + films anthology. Sarah is also the author of Horse-Woman, (Basic Bruegel, 2025) a poetic ‘otherkin’ traumatic but healing memoir, that includes her early paintings, created whilst working as a fashion model and living in 1970s London bedsit land.