Wayfaring Stranger
Synopsis
WAYFARING STRANGER charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven performers, across seven days representing seven decades. Running from the city, through post-industrial edge lands and manicured enclaves, they find themselves in forests, farms, mountains and finally at the shore. Along the way, which lasts a lifetime, they undergo a transformation, through the seasons and changing geography, both physically and emotionally, from youth to elderhood, and from a single, alienated being into an accepted element of the wider world. Their personal narrative co-exists with the past, present and future of the land they traverse. Each ‘day’ is a ‘station’ that signifies a turning point in their emotional development: from escape, through loss, grief and waywardness, to solidarity and co-existence.
Part fable, part manifesto, part poem, filmed across landscapes marked by centuries of ceaseless human extraction, Wayfaring Stranger asks what it takes to find a liveable life on one’s own terms and without conflict with others and the environment.
Within the sound design by multi-award-winning sound recordist Chris Watson, the polyphonic environment scores the seasonal changes alongside the human and topographic shifts.
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Details
- Year
- 2024
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 70 min
- Format
- 4K
- Director
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman
- Producer
- Marta Michalowska, Thomas Zanon-Larcher
- Co-Producer
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman
- Editor
- Taina Galis, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
- Screenwriter
- Gareth Evans, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
- Director of Photography
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman
- Sound
- Chris Watson
- Music
- Balamuc, Fern Maddie
- Principal Cast
- Eileen Myles, Eirini Ampatzi Ippikoglou, Michiko Oki, Moon Nanook Guo-Barker, Mwiinga Twyman, Therese Henningsen, Xiaolu Guo
Genre
Production status
Post-production
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Last updated 22nd September 2023
