OUR NUCLEAR
MOON

​Once a small fishing hamlet, Sizewell is now better known for its power station. Residents mostly ignore their nuclear neighbour, though they note that the sea is a bit warmer, fish are scarcer and house prices cheaper than a few miles up the coast.

 

The retired military couple tend to a seagull chick that fell off the roof, a ceramicist makes power plant figurines, dog walkers moan about increased parking fees, local fishermen catch little, and occasionally a jeep passes with suited men surveying land for the new plant ‘C’. Amidst this routine, surreal scenes unfold with locals enacting folklore inspired by the sea and the station, blending the extraordinary with the everyday.

 

Our Nuclear Moon is a documentary film and performance project that delves into the mundanities, peculiarities and mythologies of a coastal community living next to a power station.​

 

This project is about little humans living next to big things - natural things and man-made things.​It is about the legacies we create and those we leave behind.​It is about myth making.​​