'Leechcraft' A narrative experiment in myth and memory A film by Michaela Cullen A hallucinatory slipstream through grief, girlhood, and mythic decay, 'Leechcraft' unfolds in an abandoned church swallowed by wilderness, a crumbling threshold between the sacred and the feral. Here, the dead speak in spores, the soil remembers what we try to forget, and the divine is feral, feminine, and full of rot. Told through flickering images, broken narrative, and a soundscape that hums like a haunted breath, this film explores post-religious ritual, Irish folklore, and the slow, soft violence of transformation. A hymn for the haunted. A dream for the dirt. A love letter to the parts of us we buried. ––– Credits Directed, written, edited & scored by Michaela Cullen Camera: Pearce Cullen Sound Design: Michaela Cullen Narrative & Voice: Michaela Cullen

N.S.E.W is an experimental research film set in a parallel now, a world shaped by collapse, confusion and collective burnout. Named after the four directions, the piece maps a disoriented global state where movement feels constant but directionless. The film reflects on late-stage capitalism, hyper-individualism, digital isolation and the emotional consequences of acceleration. It sits between dystopia and utopia, using image, sound and structure to explore how community fractures and reforms under pressure. Part of a wider body of research on third spaces, collective care and emotional infrastructure, N.S.E.W is a visual essay on living through shared panic and finding traces of hopecore in the wreckage. — Written, directed, filmed and edited by Michaela Cullen Sound by Michaela Cullen