Seascape is a mixed-media animated documentary and a showcase piece within a broader research project exploring how the sea can be mapped through memory, using experimental documentary methods and reflection on the Sea, a mass of water deceptively transparent, made mercurial by war, loss, and the weight of memory, its thick liquid channels pulling me back toward distance.

Rooted in both research and biography, and suspended between escapism and escape, the film navigates and animates personal and collective narratives, interwoven by way of the sea. At the heart of the work are intimate conversations and thoughts, tracing trauma and history across generations as they flow and shift along with the current.

The visual language of the film shifts between classical documentary imagery and moments where memory takes over the frame, infusing it with emotion and shifting its meaning through a range of visual techniques. The imagery is rooted in photographs from the shoreline where Shir grew up, interwoven with scenes from coastal towns across the UK.