Monster’s Walk in Ten Chapters (Version III), 2025
Digital 4K file, 4:3, 39 minutes and 39 seconds, sound
A melancholic creature — a monster I performed in costume — arrives in a small rural town and moves through the different types of public spaces that characterise it, as if searching for something or someone, and eventually leaves. The tonality of space changes gradually from colour to dense black-and-white as the monster enters the built environment, where he fluctuates between being visually discernible and indiscernible. Alongside the process of walking, a fairytale of tragic love between a princess and a monster, peppered with colonialist undertones, is narrated through voice.
This is a re-edited version of the work that emerged from a residency I undertook at Deveron Projects in Huntly, Scotland. The fairytale pays homage to the fantasy literature of Huntly-born writer and clergyman George MacDonald (1824–1905).
Original credits: Written, directed and performed by Irineu Destourelles. Narration by Maureen Ross. Costume Designer: Zephyr Liddell. Costume Maker: Emily Smit-Dicks. Director of Photography, Editor and Colourist: Daniel Hughes. Sound Recordist and Mixer: Mark Readhead. Story Editor: Lavendhri Arumugam. Assistants: Anita Krasowska and Zuzana Fryntova. Produced by Deveron Projects, a Culture Collective project funded through Creative Scotland.
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