An oceanic feeling
Subtitle: cinema and the sea
By: Erika Balsom
Series: Statements; Statements (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery)
Publisher: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780908848966
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Sea in motion pictures; Exhibitions
Description: "An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea by Erika Balsom, is an essay that surveys the seascape of historical and contemporary filmmaking across genres.The result of Erika Balsoms 2017 residency with the Govett-Brewster as International Film Curator in Residence, An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea complicates the Romantic myth of the ocean as a dark, monstrous void of unknowable depths, populated by alien creatures.Across five themes the elemental contingencies of water, the fascination of submarine cinematography, representations of littoral labour, approaches to the Middle Passage and illegalized migration, and the materiality of global maritime circulation An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea drifts idiosyncratically through the history of cinematic representations of the sea, approaching the ocean as a vast and fluid archive traversing nature and culture. Through the essay Balsom asks: what if we understood the ocean not as dividing us but as connecting us? What politics, what ethics, would follow? An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea is published as the first of the Govett-Brewsters STATEMENTS series of commissioned essays, published with the support of Creative New Zealand"--https://ubiq.co.nz.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Projection Series #11: An Oceanic Feeling, 4 August - 18 November 2018, curated by Erika Balsom.

Includes bibliographical references and filmography.