Pinwydd

"Utopia is on the horizon.I move two steps closer; it moves two steps away. I walk ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further.As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. What's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking." Eduardo Galeano

Anthropomorphic manifestations of the hyperobjects of animal husbandry, millitarisation, forestry plantations and capitalist markets become combating characters in the poetic blockbuster Pinwydd. Rooted in the realities of landlordism, climate collapse, and extractivism, Pinwydd draws on sci-fi tropes and the Mabinogion myth of Blodeuwedd to rupture the seeming inevitability of capitalism. Pinwydd is a bilingual community folk sci-fi film made in the Dyfi Valley, mid-Wales, through a year-and-a-half of workshops, LARP events, and psychogeographic tours of local spruce plantations. Developed with the youth-led collective Stiwdio Dyfi and local lgbtqia+ participants, the film reimagines forestry landscapes and rural life through myth, fantasy, and collective production. Pinwydd was commisioned by Chapter and supported by Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, Ariennir Gan Y Loteri, Ty Cerdd, Andrew Logan Museum of Sculture and Stiwdio Dyfi.