The short film, which was shot in West Sussex, depicts the contemporary monster of water pollution and how it chokes out Britain’s waterways.
Co-founders of Silicon Gothic, Cathy Wippell and Joseph Archer, are the filmmakers behind the project, and they say they felt obligated to speak out about it.
“Our world faces so many huge, complex, intangible problems out there, and what Silicon Gothic does is we take those problems and ‘monstify’ them, so we make them physical and understandable.”
It delivers a pertinent message at a time when sewage pollution of the nation’s rivers is partially due to climate change and extreme weather patterns.
As the co-star and creator of the movie, Wippell is an avid open-water swimmer who was motivated to write the script when water toxicity levels in her home county blocked off areas she used to be able to swim in.
