Wild Man is the story of a strange emergence, capture and return home. Filmed on Dunwich beach, Suffolk, just up the coastline from Orford, where the famous wild merman was caught.

 

I spent most of my teen years in Suffolk. The poem-film explores thresholds with themes of fascination with 'otherness'; inappropriate hospitality; identity oppression; resilience; dignity; obscurity; beauty and raw faith, drawing deep from the memory well of the Orford wild man. 

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The dance is improvised; a body dream - the body imagines through engagement with landscape.

Movement here is a response to a call, landscape isn't a backdrop but a choreographer.

Landscape is mythic, an artist, and body is clay, remembering. 

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How do we respond to the unexpected? Is it sometimes more accommodating to let the other go, rather than let them in? What is it to be a guest? In this moonset/sunrise film, as the full moon is swallowed by the dark jaws of the dunes, the sun creaks over the sea behind clouds.

As one guest leaves heaven into earth, another walks in to reign the sky.

Wild Man  hopes to be premiered in Ipswich later this year.

Dance, Poem + Creative Direction: Kait Dron

Filmographer: Maxwell Owain Reynish

Soundscape: Ocean