Wellow

‘Wellow’ dwells upon place, ancestry, mortality and religion, triggered by the redevelopment of the artist's late Grandfather’s Baptist church in a rural village on the Isle of Wight. The film contemplates her family history in relation to the site and features a telephone conversations with her Mother, recorded during lockdown, as she remembers her ancestors and recounts her personal stories. The whole project is underpinned by extracted quotations from T.S Eliot’s poem, ‘Four Quartets’, in particular, ‘East Coker’ (1940) and ‘Little Gidding’ (1942), to illuminate themes of time, memory, life cycles and renewal through this very English village community.

Year

2020

Director

Sally Waterman

Duration

10 min

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English