Confinement is a short film set in the watery landscape of Walthamstow Wetlands, London. It presents a surreal, dystopian alternate world of maternal experiences as a testament to motherhood and birth during the covid lockdown.

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During a series of tableaus, we see fantastical costumed figures interact with one another in this abandoned urban wilderness, enacting a mysterious mythology through acts of ritual and service. The film explores 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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This short film is an echo and accompanying piece to a site-specific performance at Walthamstow Wetlands in London in the summer 2022, part of the wider project was a series of community workshops and a collective digital artwork as memory of these events.