Watercress

A film by Constance Beeson

optical sound

Birds in a blue sky cut to men and women running naked through a golden field. A clothed man wanders through a forest between different scenes, playing a flute. Then we are at a musical gathering, with a banjo, a recorder, tambourines, and others, as spectators eat and watch. We cut to a group camp site, where we see people wandering with ducks, DOGs and children and small farm animals, and a garden. Music plays with lyrics “living in the country” and then it is just instrumental. We see nude men and women working at the camp site and a nude man and woman playing in a lake. There is a pan looking across at a mountain range, then the remainder of the film is composed of sexual play in a bedroom, with varying numbers of people involved. Cut together with the play, are shots looking into the light coming in through windows. The bodies leave and we are back looking up at flying birds.