I went to university, but I left after a month as it wasn’t for me at all. So I had the following year at home, and I used to go every day to Showstopper Video. It was amazing, it had a whole world cinema section and I got this from there. The most memorable aspect of the film is the swooshing grass. It works completely literally as a setting, and for the atmosphere of the place, but it’s also kind of a brilliant metaphor. You have this very strange dynamic between the mother and the daughter in the film, this kind of slightly jealous, eroticised, very close but hateful relationship that is bound together. And then these monsters appear from out of the reeds and there is this mixture of trying to protect each other but also fighting over these horrible men. I just love it because it’s so blurry. This role of the mam as a protector but then also a competitor. It feels quite true but scary. Mams are quite scary. They are the best, but they are pretty scary. I think it’s really about the photography for me, and the location of the house that is surrounded by so much space. This horrible, unsure, watery space that is very unsure underfoot, and also that terrible pit. It’s so awful. There’s nothing else quite like it. It’s so distinctive and peculiar.
