Rabbit Trap

8/23/2026

*Rabbit Trap* is a film about listening. Not simply because Darcy is a sound recordist and Daphne an experimental musician, but because Bryn Chainey keeps asking what might be present in the world if we paid sufficiently strange attention to it. The soundscape is extraordinary. Insects, wind, field recordings and noises that seem to sit somewhere between the natural and the impossible make the Welsh landscape feel less like scenery than a consciousness Darcy has accidentally tuned into. The camera follows suit. Close framing and soft backgrounds keep the couple trapped within their own small emotional space even when they are surrounded by open country. The landscape is enormous, yet the film feels intensely private. Then a child appears. The obvious route is changeling folklore,