Double Tide
ticketsFilm Information:
Year:
2009
Double Tide
Países:
Director:
Sharon Lockhart Color:
Color
Format:
HD
Duration:
99 min
Cast:
- Jen Casad
Production:
- FOTOGRAFÍA: Richard Rutkowski
- MONTAJE: May Rigler
- PRODUCCIÓN: Clay Lerner
Contact:
- Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art
- Potsdamer Str. 2
- 10785 Berlin, Germany
- T +49 30 2695 5158
- F +49 30 2695 5111
- E verleih@arsenal-berlin.de
- W www.arsenal-berlin.de
Synopsis
Twice a day the female clam digger drags the heavy sled she uses for her work onto the mudflats. Once when the sun lights up the landscape at dawn and a second time when it renders it in glowing colors at sunset. She spends 45 minutes making her way from the shore into the vastness left behind by the low tide, and then another 45 making her way back to the shore –45 minutes during which the flat image of the screen expands into the depth of space. She wades slowly through the water, bending over every couple of meters to bury her gloved hands deep in the mud. The sucking noise this makes has something intensely corporal about it in comparison with the distant twittering of birds and the occasional sound of a ship’s horn echoing through the mist. Before the clam digger brings her haul on to the shore she carefully removes all the mud from her sled. Double Tide, Sharon Lockhart’s fourth film about work (after Nö, Lunch Break and Exit), introduces us to a form of labor most of us are as little aware of as we are of the fact that there are only very few days on which low tide occurs twice during daylight hours in Maine.
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