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Wayfinder | Movie review

The feature debut of artist Larry Achiampong, Wayfinder follows a young woman known simply as the Wanderer (Perside Rodrigues) as she travels from the north of England to the south, exploring a range of locales and bearing witness to a variety of different stories and people during her journey. The tales she hears on her travels touch on several injustices and inequalities, painting an uncertain picture of the future she walks towards.

Wayfinderis a very interesting film in its writing, structure and cinematography, eschewing conventional forms of storytelling in favour of establishing a specific ambience, placing narrative significance on the journey itself rather than anything at its terminus. Besides appearances from Mataio Austin Dean as singer “The Griot” and sprinter Anita Neil (Britain’s first black female Olympic athlete) as herself, the Wanderer is alone on her trek, with only her narration breaking the silence as she walks through seemingly abandoned buildings and empty neighbourhoods and …