Stranger on the Shore: Dark Satanic Malls

The first in a cycle of films exploring Britain's coastal edgelands, this film looks specifically at the dockside desolation of the Thames Estuary in Essex, crossroads of global trade.

It's different by the sea. A bit strange even. Just as the coast lies at the ends of England geographically, it's also at the edges of our society and the margins of our culture, a place of transgression, eccentricity, colour and romance. Stranger on the Shore is a cycle of video-poems exploring these liminal spaces; this film looks specifically at the dockside desolation of the Thames Estuary in Essex, crossroads of global trade.