thedeeps

The Deeps (2025) is a feature film (131 minutes) in collaboration with Madeleine Stack. To date, it has been exhibited at Cordova gallery, Barcelona as part of Matiné (25/06/2025 – 15/08/2025, VOSE) and screened at Wreckers gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane (10/10/2025).

The Deeps lingers at the threshold between sex and grief, water and fire, permanence and rot. Set in the Australian subtropics amongst wildfires, neon lights and beached animals – the strange prophecies of a collapsing, colonised world – a group of artists pull an outsider from the ocean. Whether the drowning was an accident or a suicide attempt remains unclear, but the act of rescue disturbs something ancient and unresolved. Through caring for this stranger, the group begins to metabolise the death of their friend who disappeared into floodwaters the year before. What to do with the obscene whipped-up energy that remains after touching death? It needs to find another outlet. Together they drift through parties, protests, underpasses, each other’s beds and shared hallucinations. All the while, they are building a monument which remains in a state of constant transformation – metal rusts, sweat attracts cicadas, algae shimmers in crevices – which they dedicate to the decision to stay alive.

Directed, written and edited by Madeleine Stack & Fer Boyd

Starring: Fer Boyd, Romii Fulton-Smith, Shelby Graham, Jarrod van der Ryken, Jake Aitchison, Isadora Chadeaux, and Sarah Poulgrain, with special appearances by Rose Bowes and Bona Obiri-Yeboah.

DOP: Madeleine Stack

Score: Fer Boyd