The land beneath sleeps lightly
(2025)
(2025)
This new, collaborative film - commissioned for 2025 Liverpool Biennial BEDROCK - is set in the elaborately decorated bedrooms, hallways and ballrooms of the iconic Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool. Co-created with local award-winning film-making organisation First Take and participants from their REEL: Queer programme, the film adopts a non-linear, poetically disorienting structure. Drawing on the aesthetic and affective language of horror – a genre resonant to both the collaborators and the artist – to explore longing and Queer identity.
Once a popular destination for wealthy travellers en route to North America via Liverpool in the early twentieth century, the Adelphi Hotel has, over the years, become home to countless stories, legends and myths. Building on these foundational narratives, the artist reimagines the hotel as a vessel for memory, desire, mourning, and transformation. The film features predominantly actors and performers from Liverpool and was shot entirely on location with the cast and crew of REEL: Queer. The film transforms this historic hotel into a place where fear, hope and joy all reside.
Courtesy of the artist. Co-commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and First Take, with support from Polish Cultural Institute in London. With thanks to the Adelphi Hotel.
Once a popular destination for wealthy travellers en route to North America via Liverpool in the early twentieth century, the Adelphi Hotel has, over the years, become home to countless stories, legends and myths. Building on these foundational narratives, the artist reimagines the hotel as a vessel for memory, desire, mourning, and transformation. The film features predominantly actors and performers from Liverpool and was shot entirely on location with the cast and crew of REEL: Queer. The film transforms this historic hotel into a place where fear, hope and joy all reside.
Courtesy of the artist. Co-commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and First Take, with support from Polish Cultural Institute in London. With thanks to the Adelphi Hotel.
