The Fog

“Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?”

The Fog is enveloped in and characterised by the horrors of a supernatural, omniscient and malevolent atmosphere. In the small coastal town of Antonio Bay, an irregular mist appears to expand and contract, engulfing never-to-be-seen-again victims with alarming velocity. Here, our perpetrator is not the warped and twisted man in a mask that characterised horrors of the 70s and 80s, but a threat that consists of the very conditions we need on to survive. Our atmosphere, turned against us.

The Fog may seem to eschew any obvious correlation with environmental messages of the era, by preferring instead to anthropomorphise its fog in a narrative that describes centuries old-sailors enacting their murderous and ghostly revenge. However, through this unnatural fiction, does the fog itself unveil some of our fears around the violences of our ancestry and the reclamation of the oppressed?