
Nowt But a Fleeting Thing
Farming looks like a quiet life from outside: fields, livestock, seasons turning. This short film opens with a harder fact, that the suicide rate among farmers runs almost double that of the general population, and spends its nineteen minutes asking why a job so tied to the land takes such a toll on the people doing it. Rather than treating the statistic as an abstract headline, the film sits with the everyday pressures behind it, the isolation of working alone for long hours, the financial strain that can follow a bad season, and the difficulty of asking for help in a culture that prizes stoicism. It is a small, focused piece rather than a sweeping survey, built to make one uncomfortable number impossible to ignore. The title itself, borrowed from the idea that a life on the land can feel fleeting, sets the tone for a film more concerned with why people are struggling than with offering easy comfort.