Working to Beat the Devil

‘Images of all past actions incessantly passing through the brain…’An ageing scientist, troubled and confused by remembrances from his past, toils night and day to (re-) discover secrets to the creation of life. The creature, struggling for existence in the natural world, journeys unceasingly to find its creator. Composed using fictional, archival and documentary material, the film interweaves semi-biographical elements from the hermetic life of Guy Shewring (the scientist) with an imagined world of his past and future, in which science becomes fiction. The film instills a quiet yet powerful sense of wonder in rediscovering the wild shapes of nature.