Short film and multidisciplinary project
Co-created by: GWENBA, Tess Woof
Produced by: Robert Oros
Featuring: Tess Woof, Beth Greenhalgh
Written and Directed by: GWENBA
Performance Direction and Score: Tess Woof
Cinematography: Kurt Riddell, GWENBA
Costume and Make-up: Petros Kourtellaris
Ceramics: Judith Rees
Lighting and Gaffer Support: Chapter Arts Centre
Sound Design: Tess Woof, GWENBA
Post-production and Design: GWENBA
Mentorship and Dramaturgy: Heike Roms,
Sam Williams, Holly Davey
Filmed at: Ginst Point, Carmarthenshire, Wales
With support from: Chapter Arts Centre,
+ Arts Council Wales
allis shad, ammophila arenaria (marram grass), atlantic salmon, baird’s sandpiper, baltic tellin, bar-tailed godwit, bass (european seabass), black-headed gull, black-tailed godwit, blue mussel, brent goose, buff-breasted sandpiper, canada goose, cakile maritima (sea rocket), carex arenaria (sand sedge), common cockle, common gull, common limpet, common periwinkle, common scoter, common tern, cormorant, cream-coloured courser, curlew, curlew sand
OYSTER is a multidisciplinary rupture, dredging Welsh myth through the silt of the Anthropocene. The Cauldron of Annwfn bubbles up: spitting out queer mutations, collapsing ecologies, half‑formed ways of belonging. Bodies come apart. Hands learn care in the wreckage. Breath catches in an old accordion; memory leaks, slips, hums. Myth and matter scrape against each other until they spark.
No answers offered. An opening, a crack: a portal where grief and joy knot together, where you unmake yourself in order to begin again, together, raw.
