“If you have visited Jekyll you'll never be quite the same. It possesses you, it intrigues you." Tallu Fish
That barrier island's beach is famous for its boneyard tree, stretching for about a mile with dignity. Among these live oaks and palms, sometimes damaged but nonetheless robust in their resilient allure, I met what I like to call "beings". I encountered monsters, creatures, heroes, gods, goddesses, titans belonging to Greek mythology. The "life-death" and "imagination-reality" correlations in the world of the living suddenly resurface: biologically speaking, these trees are said to be "dead", whereas these personifications I see seem as they were very much alive, or at least surviving. It was an opportunity to think about nature and human condition.
— A biologist friend of mine will explain in greater detail in an article the states of osmosis, symbiosis and metamorphosis that operate on this dream island.
— The details of the creatures and divinities presented below can be found on the short film page - if not listed here.
Daïmôn
Hamadryad
Hamadryads were born and lived under the bark of trees, at one with them. Until the day they passed away, as did their host tree. One of the pleasures of this kind of dryad was to dance.
Dragon of the Ares spring
Eye For An Eye
Cerberus
Chimera
Phobos
Deimos
Leviathan
Hydra of Lerna
In Greek mythology, it was a gigantic snake with many heads (the number varies), whose mouths blew a poisonous breath over the Lerna marshes near Argos. Legend has it that when one of its heads was cut off, two grew back.
Slowly but surely
Helios slips in and takes Driftwood Lady in his arms.
Theotormon
Python (adorned)
In Greek myth, Python is the guardian of Delphi and protects its Oracle. Gaia procreated him as the Earth's first serpent (or dragon woman). He served as Typhon's wet nurse.
Ares
(Mars)
“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”
― R.W. Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays.
