EMPTY FEET & FIREFLIES (2020)

Bringing together the salvaged remnants of an unrecoverable part-installation, part-improvised narrative film project, Empty Feet & Fireflies is the result of an assemblage of images; portraits of real people living in different places and timezones, filmed over a year of study in the UK, Oceania and South-East Asia.

The film travels through interconnecting streams of memory, exploring the balance between the industrial, electrical whirrings and waste cycles of our consumer-driven modern world, alongside the more essential pulses, textures and rhythms of nature. From cityscapes to tiny bugs, in discord and harmony; we navigate through the residual static left somewhere in-between.

Directed & Produced by BENJAMIN MEADS

CAST (as selves) ICA WAU, INDRA WAU KRISTIAN KING RICHARD SURJADI MAIMAN GE’E JON RIDDELL In Loving Memory of ALY WAU

CREW Cinematography & Editing by BENJAMIN MEADS Sound Design & Original Music by YOUNESS ELHARRAK Executive Producers: HANZHI RUAN, TIM PAN VFX Supervisor: WILL OXLADE Location Manager for “Soup”: LAKSHMI AJAY Set Decorator for ‘The Terrarium’ from “Soup”: MAUD FLEMINGER THOMSON

a LITTLE MICROCOSMS™ production

return to work