Photographer Briscoe Park and filmmaker Riley Lynch have come together to present this story of brotherly love and loss. With Riley penning the words and Briscoe on visuals, the pair take us through a sort of sordid fairytale. So how did this come to be? Briscoe says, “I woke up one morning to hear that my photos have reached Riley and what he saw really resonated with him. We began on a beautiful journey and story really resonated with both of us. Something that most brothers have thought about and potentially fear. The loss of a brotherly bond. The loss of someone who is still here in this physical world.”
The loss is palpable, Riley describes it as, “The figures in Briscoe’s work spoke to me of loss and woe. I felt the pain in these blank faces, and in their stilted bodies. The images told me of a saga between two brothers, some sadness that had begun early on in life, and had progressed like a malignant cell into adulthood, and ultimately led to a terrible betrayal and the death of their brotherly bond. I thought about how sacred the bond of brotherhood is, and how horrifying it must be to lose that trust. It would feel like being adrift at sea. You would want to do anything to fix it, even following your brother into the land of the dead…”
Briscoe adds, “While I was in Louisiana, FANGORIA reached out to me and said they’d really like to work together. I started with the photos and had a general feeling I wanted to go for, but couldn’t stick my finger on the actual story. That’s when Riley came into play. Riley picked up these photos and really gave the project some direction, and inspired me to go further into the story with my location choices. We were sort of feeding back and forth off of each other‘s ideas as the project move forward. It was like a game of tennis, I would hit the ball on his side and he would hit it back.”
The result is equal parts art piece and graphic novella. Experience the full story below, as we follow Briscoe and Riley into The Pond and into the land of the dead.
