How does water influence the arts and vice-versa? These films will tantalize and inspire you with their artistry and beauty and, at times, their quirkiness.
Perpetual Becoming
Can a film create a state of devotional meditation? “Listen to the voice of being…” in the Sierra Nevada. An enchanting electronic score immerses the viewer in a voyage of reverence.
10 minutes
Aquaverse
AQUAVERSE is a story about disappearance and the quest for a refuge. Through the dive of a half-human, half-machine character, the film raises a paradox attached to the deep sea: that of a tangible and real world, but considered less real than our new virtual worlds. The "Aquaverse" as a place not occupied by humanity is in fact a parallel world.
The character does not fall into the trap of his own reflection but falls beyond it to lead the spectators in a wandering in the heart of a Mediterranean coral reef. We discover a mysterious biodiversity that seems to observe us quietly, as if unaware of the danger we represent for it. It is in the form of a phantom net that this danger will materialize, leaving the character alone in front of a plastic trap that closes little by little on humanity.
The character does not fall into the trap of his own reflection but falls beyond it to lead the spectators in a wandering in the heart of a Mediterranean coral reef. We discover a mysterious biodiversity that seems to observe us quietly, as if unaware of the danger we represent for it. It is in the form of a phantom net that this danger will materialize, leaving the character alone in front of a plastic trap that closes little by little on humanity.
13 minutes
Water and ice
80 close up shots, 7 seconds each.
80 abstract paintings in motion.
Form, abstraction, light, reflection, movement, flow, colour, transparency, monochrome.
Original audio.
80 abstract paintings in motion.
Form, abstraction, light, reflection, movement, flow, colour, transparency, monochrome.
Original audio.
11 minutes
The Whale Guitar: Instrument of Change
Inspired by Herman Melville's epic tale, "Moby-Dick or The Whale", THE WHALE GUITAR: INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE follows a late-blooming singer/songwriter and former toy designer, Jen Long, as she acts on a startling vision and commissions the design and build of a remarkable custom electric guitar. Its body is "The Whale" itself as it snags the mad Captain Ahab in the tangled ropes of his own obsession and prepares to launch a boat of his whalers to their doom. The entire guitar re-interprets Melville's tale as an Anthropocene climate change warning, with the whale representing the seas and storms of climate change arising on this "third day" of late-stage capitalism.
Hundreds of guitarists, including J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., and Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females, have played and signed this "Instrument of Change" to amplify the alarm to turn our ship of over-production and over-consumption around while there is still time. As the embroidered strap featuring Starbuck's last words implores: "Oh! Ahab, not too late is it, even now, the third day, to desist."
Hundreds of guitarists, including J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., and Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females, have played and signed this "Instrument of Change" to amplify the alarm to turn our ship of over-production and over-consumption around while there is still time. As the embroidered strap featuring Starbuck's last words implores: "Oh! Ahab, not too late is it, even now, the third day, to desist."
12 minutes
