Noriaki Tsuchimoto, The Shiranui Sea ( Shiranuikai), 1975, 2 hrs 33 mins Black Beach / Horse / Camp / The Dead / Forces assembles a silent chorus dedicated to acts of repair, finding beauty and renewal amidst the ongoing trauma of expropriated and poisoned land. She is a witness to their actions but refrains from any explanation, preferring instead to craft lyrical evocations of place. Beatriz Santiago Muñoz attends to the reclaiming of this once militarized space by local communities as they fight for decontamination. In 2003, following widespread protests, the United States Navy withdrew from Vieques, an island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico that it had used since the 1940s for weapons testing and training, leaving behind serious environmental damage that many residents claim is responsible for the elevated rates of illness that exist in the area. Karimah Ashadu, Lagos Island, 2012, 4 mins 44 secs.īeatriz Santiago Muñoz, Black Beach / Horse / Camp / The Dead / Forces, 2016, 8 mins Noriaki Tsuchimoto, The Shiranui Sea ( Shiranuikai), 1975, 2 hrs 33 mins. Movement 1 (21 November–06 December 2020)īeatriz Santiago Muñoz, Black Beach / Horse / Camp / The Dead / Forces, 2016, 8 mins. Spatial design by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané In the aftermath of harm and loss, they imagine possibilities of repair and resurgence.Ĭurated by Erika Balsom and Grégory Castéra (Council) Through a wide range of strategies-from observation and the interview to speculative fiction and the essay form-they confront the difficulty and the desirability of building a shared world when deep divisions and power asymmetries everywhere prevail. Presented within a space designed by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, across six cycles that come and go like the tides, these films search for ways to render sensible the particularity and complexity of reality, embracing filmic and verbal language as nontransparent mediators that aid in this task. Sometimes these relations are harmonious, but they can equally be characterized by discord and violence the shoreline is where seemingly irreconcilable worlds confront one another in negotiations without end.Īcross eighteen works of cinematic non-fiction made between 19, “Shoreline Movements” explores how artists and filmmakers have addressed the manifold encounters that take place in the littoral zone, broaching issues of environmental crisis, indigeneity, coloniality, community, and otherness. By attending to the shifting frontier of the shoreline and the organisms that inhabit it, we can learn to think ecologically, which means understanding the fluid relations that exist between a vast array of agents, to the point that presumed separations between them are put into question. “Shoreline Movements” is a film program that approaches the threshold between land and water as a material environment and as a provocative metaphor for the uncertainties and conflicts of worldly existence.
As the planet heats up and water levels rise, the shoreline is among the places where our vulnerability to climate emergency is made most manifest. In the case of marine shorelines, the intertidal zone-exposed to the air at low tide and immersed in water at high tide-is an in-between realm of intermittent transformation, containing a high diversity of species that have found ways to survive together within the challenging flux of the ecosystem.
At once embedded in local traditions and subject to industrial development, it is a site of encounter between different populations and environments. It is a place of arrivals and departures, of safe harbors and hostile intrusions. Whereas most boundaries enforce separation, it is a threshold marked by contact and negotiation, change and instability. The shoreline is an unusual kind of boundary. Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987 I stand at the edge where earth touches oceanĪt other times and places a violent clash. Supported by Carasso Foundation and Foundation for Arts Initiativesįilms by Peggy Ahwesh, Karimah Ashadu, Joshua Bonnetta, Edith Dekyndt, Maya Deren, Patricio Guzmán, Sky Hopinka, Hu Tai-li, Johan van der Keuken, Rebecca Meyers, Carlos Motta, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Thao Nguyen Phan, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Ben Rivers, Francisco Rodriguez, Noriaki Tsuchimoto, Zhou Tao “Shoreline Movements” is part of “On Becoming Earthlings,” a project by Council.
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