Victoria Smith

Two teenage girls want nothing but to play games, dress up and have adventures, but when they find themselves in conflict with the world around them they set out to transform it and break free. Playful, poetic, experimental

Two figures walk through a forest that morphs and transforms before our eyes. In this expressionistic film, VHS footage has been projected and refilmed several times with different cameras until it breaks down and takes on a fluid quality, reminiscent of watercolour or ink, to create a unique and hypnotic image.

Temporal Enforcement Agent Elliott Young (Victoria Smith) breaks protocol and returns to her own past. There she comes face to face with her 8-year-old past self, Ellie (Sophia Waterton), and Justin (Ian Mairs), her seemingly kind father. During the encounter, Elliott explosively confronts Justin about a tragedy that will occur in only a few hours time.

Whilst using the same base footage as in Witches Walk (2012), through an alteration in technique, and a vastly different soundscape, the work is transformed from a bright, meditative piece into a darker, almost sinister abstraction.