From the film-maker:

A moment is captured; initial beauty reveals horror in an unsettling and disturbing, yet thrilling experience. Diana holds a bow, hunting with an inhumanly calm fury. She looks part of the surrounding nature, free and triumphant. Although Actaeon’s death doesn’t seem a fitting punishment for accidentally seeing Diana, the landscape somehow seems complicit in his death. Loose brushstrokes convey movement of darkness in the trees, the water foams behind Diana, and there are exhilarating patches of light on the earth.

Actaeon’s vision of Diana’s beauty leads directly to his transformation and destruction. Hunter becomes hunted, an embodiment of female passive beauty becomes an instrument of powerful violence. ‘The Escape of Piccolina’ explores themes of transformation and violent revenge using a dark colour palette and a soundtrack inspired by howling wind and animals in the heart of the woods.

Rebecca E Marshall

A piece inspired by Titian, The Death of Actaeon, 1559-75