Fall To Fly: SCARABEUS THEATRE

Fall to Fly explores a different way of talking about and perceiving young women’s mental health: specifically self-harming and depression.

Credits

Filmmaker and Sound Design: Sky Neal

Artistic Director: Daniela Essart

Technical Director: Søren Nielson

Writer: Nicky Singer

General Manager: Lise Smith

Riggers: Graema Clint, Søren Nielson

Play time

3 minutes

About

Sky Neal collaborated with Scarabeus Aerial Theatre over a period of a month, bringing her skills in filmmaking, ethnographic research and performance. This included identifying, and subsequently filming and interviewing collaborators who had suffered from self harming. These testimonies became an essental component of the project.

Researched in collaboration with Dr Martina Di Simplicio, Dr Zoe Given-Wilson & Prof. Ian Goodyer and R&D supported by Arts Council England.