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  • Black Salt Water Elegy (2010)
  • Short | 16 min | Short, Drama
Black Salt Water Elegy (2010)
Short | 16 min | Short, Drama
A short film that weaves together original and archival material to create an ethereal narrative texture, Black Saltwater Elegy intimately links the discordant threads of a popular history of dispossession (Africville) with the solitude of...See moreA short film that weaves together original and archival material to create an ethereal narrative texture, Black Saltwater Elegy intimately links the discordant threads of a popular history of dispossession (Africville) with the solitude of its protagonist's graveyard-shift fantasies. After opening with disquieting archival footage of the demolition of Africville, the film shifts to an austere observational portrait. A palatable sense of the duration of midnight work slowly shifts into subtle gestures that hint towards choreographed events. Eventually, a breech occurs as the protagonist fuses with an emergent dreamscape, where ruined landscapes and a resurrection of an extinct community intertwine. Using the protagonist's disembodied point-of-view, the audience floats above a reconstructed Africville, one forever present, nesting in a bed of saltwater fog. Written by Anonymous See less
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Director
Solomon Nagler
Producer
Solomon Nagler
Composer
Terry Quennell
Cinematographer
John Kapitany
Production Designer
Blair Marten
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