The Unloved

Felicia Honkasalo and Sam Williams
2025
Single channel digital video with sound, 23m 52s

Full film available from 27 October – 3 November 2025

Felicia Honkasalo is an artist living in Helsinki. Working with photography, moving image, text and installation, she explores the entanglement of myth, history and material culture. Her work has been shown internationally at venues including Ars Electronica, Linz; Turku Art Museum; Helsinki Biennial; and Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Sam Williams is a London-based artist whose practice explores species entanglements, ecological systems, bodies-as-worlds and folk mythologies. He uses collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches in combination with diverse media that include moving image, performance, collage, sound and writing. His work has been presented internationally at venues that include Chisenhale Gallery, London; Atletika, Vilnius; Arnolfini, Bristol; Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg; and UC Santa Cruz. Williams participated in PRAKSIS’s twelfth residency, Taking Hold–The Double Bridge (2018).

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Credits:
Written, directed and edited by Felicia Honkasalo and Sam Williams
Performed by Lavinia Co-Op
Featuring Joanne McCarthy
Producer: Priya Palak
Camera: George Nicolaides and Sam Williams Lighting: Benjamin Leggett
Costume: Allen & Adcock
Make-up: Jenny Glynn
Set design: Danny Hyland
Set design assistants: Nia Samuel Johnson and Tom Hope Camera Assistant: Dante Garcia
Sound Recording: Rory Smith
Sound design: Jussi Liukkonen Grading: Anibal Castaño
Norwegian subtitles: Agnetha Evanger
With thanks to Roma Auškalnytė, Rūta Radušytė, Jakub Dubaniewicz, Helen Hamilton, Somerset House Studios, The Rio Cinema, TIN Café and John Hunnex at the Natural History Museum, London.

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