Digital video, SD, 4:3

07:38 min.

Filmed in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, UK

Performed by Marcus Coates

Camera and sound by Marcus Coates

Photography by Mark Pinder

Produced by Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship Programme

Coates emerges from the North Sea assuming the persona of a Selkie or Finfolk — a legendary creature from Scottish, Icelandic and Norwegian folklore capable of shedding its seal skin to appear human on land. Imagining the linguistic capabilities of a seal, Coates climbs onto the pier and attempts, as seal, to speak and act like a human. He then retreats back into the sea.