The Wind and the Whimpering

Our actors needed to embody an ever-present confliction, an internalised terrifying truth. A secret which they don’t understand but lies heavily on their sense of self. Despite the constant fear of reprisals from the reality they exist within, our two primary characters take solace in their time together. They have each-other, they have their pleasures and this brings them true relief. The ridiculosity of the marsh permeates through the narrative to the performances, design, lighting and atmosphere and is in some ways quite stark. Together, we made an episode of lunacy with its feet in the mud of English fantasticalism; an absurd abstraction of Victorian literature; a film about closeness and loneliness.