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Who by water / film by Bill Morrison ; Hypnotic Pictures, Red Poppy Music.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Ocean liner passengers.
- Fate and fatalism.
- Video art.
- Genre:
- Experimental films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (18 min.) : digital, sound, black and white
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2020]
- Language Note:
- Silent film with English credits and musical accompaniment.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Drawing from a passage from the Rosh Hashana Service, "Who shall live, who shall die ... who by water, who by fire," this short film deals with that which has been preordained-a future history that will in time unfold before us as the faces of passengers on a ship forces us to contemplate our own fate.
- Credits:
- Music composed by Michael Gordon.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Hypnotic Pictures, Red Poppy Music, ©2007.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 14, 2020).
- Publisher Number:
- if-whoby Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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