Black Samphire: The horror film 'mystifying' water pollution to share an urgent warning.
Black Samphire - an environmental folk horror, featuring the voice of Stephen Fry - fuses rural myth and the real-life threat of the climate crisis to shine a light on the UK's growing water pollution problem. Black Samphire - an environmental horror about water pollution - premiered at the buzzing Ritzy cinema in Brixton just before World Water Day - but its subject was far from the urban sprawl of south London. Filmed in West Sussex, the modern-day monster the short film portrays is water pollution and its suffocating effect on Britain's rivers. The filmmakers behind the project - Silicon Gothic co-founders Cathy Wippell and Joseph Archer - say it's a message they felt compelled to shout about. Our world faces so many huge, complex, intangible problems out there, and what Silicon Gothic does is we take those problems and 'mystify' them, so we make them physical and understandable. Rivers around the country are polluted by sewage, caused in part by a changing
