"FLOOD is an experimental narrative film about a journey down a river in the midst of ongoing economic and ecological collapse. The film tells the story of a group of friends who, driven by dreams, desperation, and a sense of adventure, decide to build a boat out of scrap material. As they begin to build more people gather at the river, assembling vessels out of the trash that surrounds them. Inspired, but uncertain, they set out down the river to make a new life for themselves. The film was shot amidst the artist Swoon’s 2008 Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea project, in which seven homespun boats were built and crewed by an eclectic group of artists and performers. The boats floated down the Hudson River staging performances in towns along the way". The folks from Fall Harbor and Dark Dark Dark, who crewed some of the vessels from Swimming Cities, are responsible for what seems to be a promising story. It is scheduled for release in 2010. More info can be found here:
FLOOD TEASER from flood movie on Vimeo.
Nona Marie Invie of Dark Dark Dark sins "I'll take these rosy cheeks of mine and be headed out/ I'll take these rosy cheeks of mine and be headed South/ 'Cause I've got two hundred dollar bills of mine, to be headed out/ I think I'll get as far as New Orleans to be swallowed whole" In some ways her words capture the mood of director Benh Zeitlin's and the Court 13 collectives' Glory At Sea. This story draws upon the sense of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina. Elements of Orpheus trying to return to his lost Eurydice float throughout this fable as well. You can view it here:
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