The Deeps (2025)

115 m

The Deeps is a feature film by Fer Boyd and Madeleine Stack that lingers at the thresholds between sex and grief, water and fire, permanence and rot.

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 hurtle 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, as drowned architectures emerge.