Howard Sooley

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.

Photographer, filmmaker and biodynamic gardener Howard Sooley began visiting Great Dixter in the late 1980s and developed a deep connection with the 15t century house and its renowned gardens in East Sussex. Great Dixter was home to gardener and garden writer Christopher Lloyd, who devoted himself to the garden from childhood until his. death in 2006 in a symbiotic relationship that defined both man and garden. Sooley's film celebrates the exceptional biodiversity and beauty of the garden with a tenderness that reflects the activities of its gardeners.