Fray Tongue, 2025

Filmed in the summer of 2025 in Donnington, 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.