Lorna

On the rugged Irish coast of the 1950s, fourteen-year-old Ben watches helplessly as his mother throws herself from a towering cliff into the sea. But when he returns home, she is already there—alive, unharmed and acting as if nothing ever happened. With his father away for days, Ben is left alone with the woman claiming to be his mother. As her behaviour becomes increasingly unsettling, he begins to suspect that something ancient has followed her back from the sea.

Lorna began with a place rather than a story.

After visiting a friend in Ireland, I couldn't stop thinking about the country's rugged coastline, towering cliffs and the folklore surrounding the sea. Around the same time I watched The Lighthouse. More than the story itself, it was the film's atmosphere that stayed with me. It reminded me that folklore can be deeply unsettling without ever losing its sense of wonder.

That combination of landscape, myth and isolation became the foundation for Lorna. The idea stayed with me for many years before I finally decided to create a short teaser as a way of exploring its atmosphere and emotional tone.

Creating the teaser became an experiment to see whether new creative tools could help visualize a story that had lived in my notes for years. The goal wasn't to make the film this way, but to discover whether they could capture the feeling of a world that, until then, had only existed in my imagination.

The teaser is built around an original poem I wrote, which became the foundation for its imagery, rhythm and mood. Rather than presenting a finished film, it offers a first glimpse into the world of Lorna—an attempt to capture the feeling of a story before the film itself exists.