Ebol

Ebol is a Welsh-language observational documentary set on Mynydd Epynt in mid-Wales, a high plateau cleared of its communities in 1940 and now operating as an active British Army training area.

The film observes a landscape where agricultural continuity, historical displacement, and military occupation coexist within the same terrain. Farmers continue to graze sheep across the uplands under longstanding rights that extend into the military zone, while the plateau itself is structured by restricted access, infrastructure, and intermittent training activity. These overlapping systems shape how the land is seen, used, and moved through in the present tense.

Rather than explaining this history through interview or narration, Ebol is constructed through sustained observational cinema. Meaning emerges through duration, proximity, and attention to the ordinary and the partial: weather moving across open ground, labour within agricultural rhythms, interruptions of military presence, and the persistence of traces from former farms embedded in the terrain.