Straddling the sweet spot between art and film, Eleanor is a new video installation from directors Alex Warren and Tobias Ross-Southall. While the work currently on view at London’s Soho Revue gallery is conceived of three interplaying films that unfold simultaneously across individual screens, today we present an exclusive one-screen edit, created especially for NOWNESS.

A nocturnal meditation on female solitude, the project stars English actress Ruth Wilson, most recently seen alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in the Broadway hit Constellations, as three different women who cross paths over one London evening.

“It became like a chain of inspiration,” explains Warren, who drew inspiration for the work from three poems (by WH Auden, Robert Frost and Leonard Cohen), and enlisted the much-lauded young writers Polly Stenham, Anya Reiss and Michael Lesslie to bring the film to life.

“Each of the three characters are alone in their own way,” says Ross-Southall, “so I wanted to find a way to make it so that they weren’t. Having one actress play all three of them unites them in their humanity and gives them something in common.” 

Rebecca Guinness is Editor-at-Large at NOWNESS.

Eleanor runs from today until May 16, 2015, at Soho Revue Gallery, London.