A short film by Cuerda Creatives, made during lockdown in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

The film brought together a group from the community of Cedeira, a remote town in Galicia, who filmed together in the magical woods of northern Spain.

To create the soundtrack I worked remotely with the extraordinary Galician folk singer Silvia Picos Lorenzo, who recorded the traditional song “Cantar de Arrieiro”.

Cóvid No Bosque is the simplest of concepts in difficult times: finding oneself lost in the woods and feeling the need to run, hard and far and free, towards the horizon. Towards a place where you can see everything from a different perspective and breathe.

This film came from a local community with a collective sense of urgency; a group of people who wanted to articulate the feeling of becoming strangers in a world which had shifted beneath their feet.

This was our stake in the ground, our compulsion to do…something.
The only budget on this production was goodwill, and yet that was enough to bring together artists from around the world: those shared feelings, like the pandemic, are global.
Working with such talent was both a humbling and an enriching experience.