Wayfaring Stranger charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven performers, across seven days representing seven decades, searching for a liveable life on their own terms and without conflict with others and the environment
Wayfaring Stranger charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven performers across seven days representing seven decades. Each 'day' is a 'station' that signifies a turning point in their emotional development: from escape, through loss, grief and waywardness, to solidarity and co-existence. Filmed across landscapes marked by centuries of ceaseless human extraction, Wayfaring Stranger asks what it takes to find a liveable life on one's own terms and without conflict with others and the environment. Within the sound design by multi-award-winning sound recordist Chris Watson, the polyphonic environment scores the seasonal changes alongside the human and topographic shifts.