COLD HOLY WATER
2019 6 minutes 20 seconds 16mm to digital video
synopsis:
The instrumental music by Marisa Anderson is a lament for Alan Kurdi, the three year old Syrian refugee boy who drowned in 2015, along with ocean waves and whale breathes sound design mixed in.The images came to my mind during the 17 days that the orca whale mother pushed her dead infant towards the surface in the Salish Sea in fall 2018 in what biologists referred to as a "tour of grief"
credits:
score: Marisa Anderson
sound design: Eric Macey
edit: Vanessa Renwick and Eric Macey
assistant editor: Katherine Lance
16mm archival footage obtained from Craig Baldwin and Daniel Menche
Film transfer: Lightpress
commissioned by Richard Herskowitz and the Houston Cinema Arts Festival