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In Post Production2019-Feature Film




ETERNITY ONE



A disappearing island community in the Chesapeake Bay and a group of futurists pursuing technological escape from death  filmed over multiple years as rising sea levels erode both land and tradition. A deep-time meteor, rendered in a game engine, narrates from outside human time.

A film about what it means to imagine a future while standing inside loss.

Observational documentary and game-engine animation run simultaneously, collapsing geological and human time into a single frame.

Filmed over multiple years on Tangier Island, Virginia, in close collaboration with the community living there. Their daily lives, labor, belief, water, are the film's primary material.

Supported by:
Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund
Rubys Artist Grants
The Deutsch Foundation
Rooftop Film Fund
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art 
Macdowell
Vermont Studio Center