Enys Men

The author of Bait, the double New Horizons winner in 2019, once again uses the hauntological potential of 16 mm film to sow the seeds of unease on screen. Scratches, vibrations and scraps enter into the on-screen dialogue with the thud and splash of a stone falling into a shaft, the whirring of a struggling generator, and the crackling from the radio, creating a fantastic analog symphony of horror - a tale of interference between links. It happens to anyone who stays alone for too long - like the protagonist of this folk psychological horror, the researcher (Mary Woodvine) observing the local flora on a deserted Cornish island: a flower that also lives alone. It's 1973, connectivity and entertainment are hard to come by. The woman writes “no change” in her log book, but, after all, she has brought a lot of baggage with her: memories, fears, fantasies, which spread around the island, approach the shore, loom, call in the Cornish dialect, disrupt the rhythm.