The Parasite, 2021, digitised B&W 8mm reversal film, 15 minutes.

The Parasite tells fragments of a story about being bitten by a tick while breastfeeding. Through text laid over footage of rural Northumbrian settings, parallels are drawn between the parasitism of the tick and the child, whose pre-lingual utterances are included in the collage-like soundtrack. View the full film here.

The Parasite was commissioned by VARC as part of ENTWINED: Rural, Land, Lives, Art. It was shown in the exhibitions ENTWINED: Rural, Land, Lives, Art at Highgreen, Tarset and at Assembly House, Newcastle upon Tyne. You can view the full PDF of the ENTWINED publication here.

You can watch an interview between Kate Liston and Roy Claire Potter about the film here. The interview was part of ENTWINED Online Assemblage convened by Newcastle University.