Semi-detached
Directed by Meg Mosley
England · 2026 · 5 min 14 sec · Experimental
Submitted to RTV International Film Festival 2026Synopsis
Semi-Detached is an experimental film created inside a recently vacated 1960s house in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Through constructed domestic scenes, performance and split-screen imagery, the film transforms an ordinary home into a psychologically charged landscape of memory, loss, longing and unease.
Credits
Directed by Meg Mosley
About the film
Semi-Detached is a 5 minute 14 second experimental film conceived alongside a photographic self-portrait series in a recently vacated 1960s semi-detached house in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Given several weeks alone in the house before it was sold and renovated, Meg Mosley transformed its rooms into carefully constructed scenes, responding to the traces of a life left behind. Costume, objects, colour, set design and performance are used to create a world suspended between reality and imagination. The film moves through fragments of domestic life, using split-screen to draw attention to gestures, objects, glances and moments of psychological tension. The divided imagery echoes both the architecture of the semi-detached house and the emotional fragmentation within it. Set to Violetta Villas’ Polish song Do Ciebie, Mamo (“To You, Mother”), the film explores longing for home, family and what has been lost. The familiar becomes strange and emotionally heightened as memory, performance and imagined narrative become intertwined.
Director(s)
Meg Mosley is a visual artist and director working across photography, film, performance and constructed environments. Originally trained in darkroom photography, she has developed a practice that combines image-making, set construction, styling and performance, allowing her to author and perform multiple elements within her work. Mosley studied Foundation Art and Design at Central Saint Martins, BA Fine Art at Middlesex University, and MA Fine Art and Critical Theory at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. She also studied film and photography at FAMU, the School of Film & Photography, Prague. Her work explores domestic space, memory, identity and the psychological possibilities of the familiar. Semi-Detached is her first completed moving-image work, conceived, written, directed, styled and produced alongside a photographic self-portrait series.
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