Five minutes to break your heart for a place you've never been.
A reflection on a Cornishman's connection to Cornwall.
Direction
Hudson packs a lifetime into five minutes.
Writing
Rowe's narration is poetry, not exposition.
Cinematography
Cornwall looks haunted by its own future.
Director
Luke Hudson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Edward Rowe (the 'Cornish Oaf' on TikTok) became an unlikely voice for Cornish identity politics through raw, unpolished shorts like this.
The title refers to both frayed fishing nets and the fraying social fabric of coastal towns gutted by second-home ownership and tourism.
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