Mikhael SubotzkyWYE, 2016
Drawn from the letter Y, Old English "wye," whose forked shape maps an imaginary triangle between the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia.
Three films play simultaneously, each following a different character on the same stretch of beach at the Cape Recife Nature Reserve outside Port Elizabeth.
James T. Lethbridge is an 1820 British settler dowsing the Eastern Cape coastline with a hazel rod, writing letters home to the Dowsing Guild of London.
Craig Hare is a white South African man in his forties, metal-detecting the same beach in the present day, planning to emigrate to Australia.
Feio is an androgynous psycho-anthropologist from the future, studying Hare as an anthropological subject by inhabiting his body and consciousness through a practice called "deep enactment."
All three are watched over by a striped lighthouse that recurs across each film.
