Holding Back the Tide - Movie

Holding Back the Tide

Emily Packer
Documentary : 77' / Ecology, Gentrification, Eco-sex, Community

“Holding Back The Tide” is an impressionistic hybrid documentary that traces the oyster through its many life cycles in New York, once the world’s oyster capital. Now their specter haunts the city through queer characters embodying ancient myth, discovering the overlooked history and biology of the bivalve that built the city. As environmentalists restore them to the harbor, we look to the oyster as a queer icon, entangled with nature, with much to teach about our continued survival.

/ EXHIBITION

Porto

November 07 | 19h30 | Batalha - Sala 2

Sections: QP - Queer Focus
+ Info: https://www.marginalgapfilms.com

/ Details

Year: 2023

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: english

With: Dragonfly//Robin LaVerne Wilson, Aasia Taylor-Patterson, TL Thompson, Hannah Rego, Meghan Dolbey, Katharine Nedder, Avery Nusbaum, Hannah Lennon, Thomas Annunziata

/ Direction

Emily Packer

USA

Emily Packer (she/they) is an experimental filmmaker and editor with an interest in geography and hybrid formats. Their directorial work has been screened at film festivals and theaters across the country, including at Anthology Film Archives, BlackStar, DOCNYC, and others. Emily’s short film “By Way of Canarsie”, which she co-directed with Lesley Steele, is streaming on the Criterion Channel and was a part of POV Shorts Season 6. Her archival film “Too Long Here”, which Criterioncast called “a fascinating, important work” about the inauguration of an international park, has been used as an advocacy tool for its preservation.