Anne Kato-Smith

A dark comedy-horror exploring the perils of toxic masculinity and the male gaze...

A self-proclaimed Elvish Princess finds herself stranded on our world in the Hackney Marshes. Without any magic to return home, she searches for purpose but develops an unlikely friendship with a sceptical student filmmaker.

A Geisha-inspired heroine opens a melting hot pot of culture woven into a London field, skewed by Western ideology of what Japan is. Blending personal experience with cultural symbolism, the work presents identity as fluid and layered, shaped by memory, heritage, and Western interpretations of Japan.