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Holding back the tide : a Marginal Gap Films production ; producers, Emily Packer, Josh Margolis, Trey Tetreault, Ben Still, Liz Beeson ; directed by Emily Packer ; written by Emily Packer, Josh Margolis
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender nonconformity.
- Human beings--Effect of environment on.
- Human beings.
- Intersexuality.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Oysters--New York (State)--New York.
- Oysters.
- New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.).
- Genre:
- Documentary films
- Feature films
- Nonfiction films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (77 min., 16 sec.)) sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] Grasshopper Film [2024?]
- Language Note:
- In English, with optional English subtitles
- System Details:
- sound
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- A woman swallows a pearl. A subway car falls to the ocean floor. A deluge bursts through the cracks of New York City. In every borough, oyster shells are pried open and carefully returned to sea. A chorus of farmers, diners, sous chefs, fishmongers, activists, and landscape architects colloquializes the oyster's many life cycles. These educational snapshots about the bivalve's ecological role, mating habits, communal living, and historical presence take on new meaning and flirt with the mythic. Underwater dances and poetic addresses blend the human and non human worlds. The oyster as a water filter, carbon capturer, storm barrier, and habitat maker transcends its environmental promise and becomes a queer icon of New York City's unlikely survival story. Retracing cyclical ecologies for the largest metropolitan area in the United States calls upon an existential reimaging of a sustainable future. Out with the narratives of bootstraps and capitalist urban individualism; in with the water-bound, the intergenerational, the queer collectivity. Once New York City was built by the oysters. Now, it is built anew
- Participant:
- Dragonfly (Robin LaVerne Wilson), TL Thompson, Hannah Rego, Aasia Taylor-Patterson, Sue Wicks, Wade Karlin, Lucina Clarke, Moody Harney, Pippa Brashear, Kim Tetrault, Owen Foote, Agata Poniatowski, John Ribaudo
- Credits:
- Music, Arooj Aftab ; original music, Abby Swidler, Melissa Guion ; editors, Lindsey Phillips, Ben Still ; director of photography, John Marty
- Notes:
- Originally released as a documentary film in 2023
- Description based on online resource; title and statement of responsibility from title screen and end credits (viewed 2025 January 24)
- OCLC:
- 1499778014
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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