Stargazy Mouth Music: A Song for the New Famine

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Stargazy Mouth Music: A Song for the New Famine

This piece falls on the hinge between Halloween and Advent—when ghosts still walk, and hunger waits for the promised feast. The veil thins, the cupboards echo, and the songs we sing are half prayer, half warning.

A modern echo of the Cornish legend of Tom Bawcock, who once braved a winter storm and brought back enough fish to feed his starving village. The proof was baked into a single pie—seven kinds of fish, their heads rising through the crust like small miracles.

Today, the seas are calm, but the hunger returns—the nets are full, but many go unfed. SNAP cuts, rising costs, and quiet cruelty have brought waves of misery crashing on the beach.

They said no drums. So we sang with our mouths.
This film remembers an earlier feast of survival in another age of famine.

"The fish are singing through holes in the sky."


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