On the remote wilderness island called Minong (Isle Royale), remains of human industry are absorbed into the forest and shoreline. An inquiry into the push and pull between people and nature, land and sea, intimacy and vastness.
5min, 16mm, silent
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“If a body of water is an imaginary space, then any island it surrounds becomes its record. Its shoreline is a map of footprints, its pockmarked woods a museum of minor industry. Both the visitor and the dreamer know: there will still be fingerprints on the windows, even once the doors have blown in.” –Ben Russell & Ben Rivers
CREDITS
Written, directed, shot, and edited by VERA BRUNNER-SUNG
SCREENINGS
2018
Engauge Film Festival, Seattle
2017
Supernormal Festival, Oxfordshire, UK
2015
Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, TX
2013
EXPO 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2012
Public Works, San Francisco
2011
“A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness,” Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
/ Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago
/ “Reckon the Earth,” Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco
/ San Francisco International Film Festival / Experiments in Cinema 6.3, Albuquerque, NM
/ Images Festival, Toronto
/ 13th Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison
2010
28th Torino Film Festival, Italy