New Indra (The Breaking of English Water)

New Indra (The Breaking of English Water)
2020
Single Channel Video
Duration: 11:03 mins
Directed by Lilian Nejatpour
Choreographed by Lilian Nejatpour and Daisy Cauty
Filmed remotely during first UK lockdown
Original Score by Lilian Nejatpour
Performed by Daisy Cauty
DOP Alfie Cauty

New Indra (The Breaking of English Water, 2020) explores the relationship between pregnancy, writing and dreams. Set during the first UK lockdown, Nejatpour’s virtual collaboration with contemporary dancer Daisy Cauty (who was in her third trimester of pregnancy during filming) responds to her dreams through choreography and physical mark-making. The musical composition highlights the enclosed parameters of production—with radio stations bleeding through the walls of Nejatpour’s home. She merges these sonic environments to symbolise the intrauterine space as a placeholder for gestation and incubation—similar to a dream state.