Confinement was a multi-platform project, including community workshops and a series of performances set in the watery landscape of Walthamstow Wetlands, in east London. The performances presented a surreal, dystopian alternate world of maternal experiences as a testament to motherhood and birth during the covid lockdowns of 2020 and 2021.

In collaboration with film-maker Vicky Thornton, we made a series of short films echoing the site-specific performances at the Wetlands (2022), to complement the wider project which included a collective digital artwork as memory of these events.  

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The performance echo is divided into three chapters: Anticipation, Confinement and Absolution. The fourth film blends the three together, into a 10 minute sequence. Fantastical costumed figures interact with one another in this abandoned urban wilderness, enacting a mysterious mythology through acts of ritual and service.

The films explore narratives around confinement, restriction, grief, healing and hope. It’s quiet pace is accompanied by an original score by Helen Epega.

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