Watermarks
An experimental documentary about Richmond, Virginia, where Confederate monuments obscure the buried traumas of the slave trade along the James River. The river becomes a line to trace a history that remains invisible. Detailed landscapes, hand-developed 16mm film, and unconventional sound design unearth a buried world, as the film questions how the past has been recorded or suppressed.
14 minutes.
screenings
2019
Slamdance Film Festival – Park City, UT
Feminist Border Arts Film Festival – Las Cruces, NM
Treefort Music Festival – Boise, ID
NOFLASH Video Show – Rutgers University, NJ
Iowa City Intl Documentary Festival (ICDOCS) – Iowa City, IA
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival – Hawick, UK
CalArts Directing Showcase, REDCAT – Los Angeles, CA
Fracto Experimental Film Encounter – Berlin, Germany
Chicago Underground Film Festival – Chicago, IL