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Wayfaring Stranger

Synopsis

WAYFARING STRANGER charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven performers, across seven days representing seven decades. Running from the city, through post-industrial edge lands and manicured enclaves, they find themselves in forests, farms, mountains and finally at the shore. Along the way, which lasts a lifetime, they undergo a transformation, through the seasons and changing geography, both physically and emotionally, from youth to elderhood, and from a single, alienated being into an accepted element of the wider world. Their personal narrative co-exists with the past, present and future of the land they traverse. Each ‘day’ is a ‘station’ that signifies a turning point in their emotional development: from escape, through loss, grief and waywardness, to solidarity and co-existence.
Part fable, part manifesto, part poem, filmed across landscapes marked by centuries of ceaseless human extraction, Wayfaring Stranger asks what it takes to find a liveable life on one’s own terms and without conflict with others and the environment.
Within the sound design by multi-award-winning sound recordist Chris Watson, the polyphonic environment scores the seasonal changes alongside the human and topographic shifts.

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Details

Year: 2024
Type of film: Features
Running time: 70 min
Format: 4K
Director: Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Producer: Marta Michalowska, Thomas Zanon-Larcher
Editor: Taina Galis, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Screenwriter: Gareth Evans, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Director of Photography: Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Sound: Chris Watson
Music: Balamuc, Fern Maddie
Principal cast: Eileen Myles, Eirini Ampatzi Ippikoglou, Michiko Oki, Moon Nanook Guo-Barker, Mwiinga Twyman, Therese Henningsen, Xiaolu Guo

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

The Wapping Project

Women’s Playhouse Trust
82 St John Street
London
EC1M 4JN

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