Along the San Andreas fault line in Southern California, Indigenous palm trees and date palms imported from the Middle East flourish. The people who tend to them reflect a landscape of frictions and affections shaped over generations by agriculture, luxury real estate, and border politics. Like the infinity storytelling of The 1001 Nights, stories fold into dreams and back into stories, a constellation of voices settle over mountains and into the earth. Intertwining color 16mm with textural black and white film hand processed with the dates leftover from harvest and plants native to the valley Feet in Water, Head on Fire is a sensory, polyvocal evocation of place.
Feet in Water, Head on Fire was made over five years through a collaborative process both behind and in front of the camera.
Along the San Andreas fault line in Southern California, palm trees and date palms imported from the Middle East flourish. The people who tend to them reflect a landscape of frictions and affections shaped over generations by agriculture, luxury real estate, and border politics. Like the infinity storytelling of The 1001 Nights, stories fold into dreams and back into stories, and a constellation of voices settle over mountains and into the earth. Intertwining color 16mm with textural black and white film hand-processed with the dates leftover from harvest and plants native to the valley, this project is a sensory, polyvocal evocation of place.
Feet in Water, Head on Fire was made over five years through a collaborative process both behind and in front of the camera.
- Year2023
- Runtime90 minutes
- CountryCanada, United States
- DirectorTerra Long
Along the San Andreas fault line in Southern California, Indigenous palm trees and date palms imported from the Middle East flourish. The people who tend to them reflect a landscape of frictions and affections shaped over generations by agriculture, luxury real estate, and border politics. Like the infinity storytelling of The 1001 Nights, stories fold into dreams and back into stories, a constellation of voices settle over mountains and into the earth. Intertwining color 16mm with textural black and white film hand processed with the dates leftover from harvest and plants native to the valley Feet in Water, Head on Fire is a sensory, polyvocal evocation of place.
Feet in Water, Head on Fire was made over five years through a collaborative process both behind and in front of the camera.
Along the San Andreas fault line in Southern California, palm trees and date palms imported from the Middle East flourish. The people who tend to them reflect a landscape of frictions and affections shaped over generations by agriculture, luxury real estate, and border politics. Like the infinity storytelling of The 1001 Nights, stories fold into dreams and back into stories, and a constellation of voices settle over mountains and into the earth. Intertwining color 16mm with textural black and white film hand-processed with the dates leftover from harvest and plants native to the valley, this project is a sensory, polyvocal evocation of place.
Feet in Water, Head on Fire was made over five years through a collaborative process both behind and in front of the camera.
- Year2023
- Runtime90 minutes
- CountryCanada, United States
- DirectorTerra Long