Little rocks in Northampton is presented as an invitation.

Four characters explore fictional narratives in a fractured, post-colonial world, a world that feels like it’s moving on without them. Emotionally trapped in their house, they perform outdated codes of behaviour, speak in appropriated dialogue from film noir movies, and use fur coats as pawn to gain hierarchical status in their unspoken game of survival. This is a stifling world, where the Hayes code of film noir is still in place and optimism is a dangerous stance.

The use of black and white 16mm film, coupled with the characters revisitation of 1940s dialogue, creates a contrived, dream like world that can’t be accessed. In this dreamland, real and imagined histories overlap and seep into our reality, with the all-pervading feeling that nature will always win in the end. The objects serve to document this; a rusty crocodile handbag, fur coats, field telephones and ashtrays, have surrendered to nature in their obsoleteness.