Withins Within
16mm, digitally edited
2022 - present
In post production
Withins Within (working title) depicts a futile pursuit of closure and reconciliation amidst the landscape of the artist’s childhood. Merging digital and analogue footage shot on location at the supposed site of Emily Brontë’s novel ‘Wuthering Heights’, the film evokes the cyclical nature of traumatised memory in an attempt to depict the reverberations of grief, love, and addiction. Unfolding to a point of cathartic disintegration, the film grasps at a paradoxical space between a determination to embrace, accept, and forgive, and a desire to find release in giving voice to pain, loss and remorse. Invoking the location and themes of ‘Wuthering Heights’ as their entry point, Annie is interested in utilising the novel’s cultural resonance to question the romanticisation of dysfunctional familial and amorous relationships, using this precarious yet potent premise as a means to consider their own relationship to concepts of home, family, and belonging.
Captions and audio description will be woven into the fabric of the new work.
Team
Annie Crabtree – Artist & Director
Alexander Hetherington – Director of Photography
Emma M. Wierda – Co-writer & Dramaturg
Char Bickley – Sound Designer
Sarah Perks – Mentor
Mathew Wayne Parkin – Consultant
Seth Hannah – Writing Consultant
Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Access for teaser video
Sensory content note: fast paced flashing imagery with glitching at 00:05 – 00:07 (two seconds).
Two versions of this teaser are available: one with captions, one with audio description. You are welcome to watch them in any order, or pick one, whichever suits your preferences – there is no ‘master’ version of the teaser video.
Captions and AD script for teaser video written by Annie Crabtree & Emma M. Wierda. Audio Description performed by Emma M. Wierda.
Image description of thumbnail: a colour still of 16mm footage, black columns flank either side of the analogue square. Auburn light bleeds through thin oval outlines hovering in the top and bottom left hand corner, the silhouette of the film sprockets. A claustrophobic close up of luminescent green heather. Jagged textures criss cross the image with darker greens and browns behind the small reaching branches of the heather plant. In the foreground, the plants are out of focus, revealing sharper textures behind. A spotlight illuminates the heather at the centre of the image.
