Fray Tongue
19minutes 33seconds
Filmed in the summer of 2025 in Donington, Lincolnshire. Fray Tongue takes its name from the dual etymology of the word fray. Fray meaning a fabric worn at its edges but is also used to infer when a male deer rubs its antlers on a tree to mark its territory. The film brings together a confluence of cultural, political and familial understandings and experiences of what constitutes the rural experience. Displaying landscapes through a slow passage of time that subtly speak to agricultural labour, migrant presences through land, mono cropping, syncretic belief systems and understanding many rural landscapes as sites of demarcation.
