Silent Snow
It was the summer they played music in the old mill. The summer Maya died. The summer they built extraordinary boats out of ordinary trash and escaped a life that didnt make sense anymore. But, thats…
Silent Snow
It was the summer they played music in the old mill. The summer Maya died. The summer they built extraordinary boats out of ordinary trash and escaped a life that didnt make sense anymore. But, thats getting ahead of the story. Flood Tide follows a group of artists and musicians who live in a small, post-industrial town. They chase jobs, struggle with bills, and use art and music to build their own small worlds. When Maya dies, they set out on an extraordinary voyage, unknowingly accompanied by her ghostly presence. And while they drift past empty new condo developments, explore crumbling castles, and swim in iridescent quarries, Maya narrates a parallel story about loss and possibility, about a strange and meandering river that flows both ways. Flood Tide rings with voices from members of the band Dark Dark Dark, a chorus of friends, and characters met along the river. Together they create a quiet narrative of loss and possibility, river and town, community and isolation, magic and mundane. The film is a collaboration with the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, a project started by the artist Swoon and built by an eclectic group of artists and performers. In the summer of 2008, the crew built and floated seven large, boat-sculptures down the Hudson River, putting on performances in towns along the way. While documenting the real life journey, Flood Tide is a work of fiction that uses the voyage as its centerpiece.
Silent Snow
Adventure,Biography,Documentary
Film Details
It was the summer they played music in the old mill. The summer Maya died. The summer they built extraordinary boats out of ordinary trash and escaped a life that didnt make sense anymore.
But, thats getting ahead of the story. Flood Tide follows a group of artists and musicians who live in a small, post-industrial town. They chase jobs, struggle with bills, and use art and music to build their own small worlds.
When Maya dies, they set out on an extraordinary voyage, unknowingly accompanied by her ghostly presence. And while they drift past empty new condo developments, explore crumbling castles, and swim in iridescent quarries, Maya narrates a parallel story about loss and possibility, about a strange and meandering river that flows both ways. Flood Tide rings with voices from members of the band Dark Dark Dark, a chorus of friends, and characters met along the river.
Together they create a quiet narrative of loss and possibility, river and town, community and isolation, magic and mundane. The film is a collaboration with the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, a project started by the artist Swoon and built by an eclectic group of artists and performers. In the summer of 2008, the crew built and floated seven large, boat-sculptures down the Hudson River, putting on performances in towns along the way.
While documenting the real life journey, Flood Tide is a work of fiction that uses the voyage as its centerpiece..