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see: “a haunted pastoral in a chilly river, with shattered head and roses“ from an ongoing project on black water and stagnant woods, this zero-budget short (made on a Samsung phone, with VSDC free video editor) draws on the spirit of dark and lonely water in the forest, in landscapes where we encounter the seepage of what Rod Giblett calls “the lower echelons of the pathetic fallacy“. this was filmed in the lowest flowing river in the country, the Darent, as Amy Cutler's second short film, and was partly inspired by Cindy Sherman's Fairytales and Disasters series of staged woodland photographs - macabre props, bodies, and a dead beast/ woman. the music was created by The Left Outsides - Mark Nicholas and Alison Cotton - whose atmospheric, hypnotic songs echo Nico's icy European folk, pastoral psychedelia and chilly English fields at dawn, and is part of their haunting pastoral LP There Is A Place, taking inspiration from the following lines: “In a woodland clearing lies the body of a young woman. A sharp intake of breath - she is alive. What happened last night? Into the woods she searches for answers... “. additional camera work and additional production by Edmund Hardy. this is part of Amy's ongoing project 'Is That An Animal You Have Stolen There Or Is That Perhaps You Yourself', named for a line from Elfriede Jelinek's In the Woods: Tragedies.
