Kathryn Ashill, Carol Morley & Hyll

Did you wander down to the pine woods behind the Walled Garden this year? There, you could explore the narrative of a fake cowboy town inside Welsh visual artist Kathyrn Ashill's new commission Gunsmoke City. The work is based on a real Gunsmoke City in the Swansea Valleys village of Seven Sisters - an unlikely setting for the masculine idyll of the Wild West. Themes of the frontier and escapism are pushed through the imagery in the film and the set. Moving-image depicts Drag Kings playing the leading cowboy figures, a tongue in cheek critique of the genre of the Western and gender norms, and the work incorporates hand-painted animation. Gunsmoke City is commissioned with thanks to GS Artists Swansea. Kathryn chats to creative producer Cathy Boyce about bringing the work to the festival site, and visual arts producer Lexi Stevens tells us how she supports artists at Green Man.  Acclaimed British filmmaker Carol Morley (The Falling, Dreams of a Life) tells Cinedrome curator Jason Solomons about her new film ‘Artist Typist Pirate King’. This dark and funny road movie starring Kelly Macdonald as Sandra and the wonderful Monica Dolan as overlooked artist Audrey Amiss.  Green Man Rising finalists and Cardiff noise creators Hyll chat to comedian Jonny Williams. Calling their sound "shambolic chaos", the Welsh language rock band formed around 2016. They've gained a reputation for their catchy melodies and explosive, energetic live sets, leaving a trail of sweat, smashed sticks, and scorched earth in their wake.