Lilith Piper

Blue Cocoon follows the story of Cynthia, a woman who lives alone, isolated from the outside world. Her day-to-day routine involves listening to an old grammar phone and the catching and killing of butterflies in vicious traps that hang from her window. One day, this routine is disrupted as a curious young girl enters her garden unexpectedly. Cynthia is besotted by the girls’ grace, youth and beauty and in her deranged, intoxicated state, decides to kidnap her using the chloroform that she uses on her butterflies, and on herself recreationally.

Co-directors Lilith Piper and Joya Berrow capture the movements and migration patterns of birds, translating their seasonal journey through dance. Part myth, part performance, Piper and Berrow shape a quiet, sensorial meditation on our relationship with nature, and the profound connection between humans and the creatures we share our home with.