2020 New Orleans Film Festival

Shorts: Riverfront

Expired November 23, 2020 5:59 AM
Already unlocked? for access
6 films in package
Wet
Archival footage and an excerpted love letter recall New Orleans’ precarious relationship to the water that defines and sustains it.
Closed captions available
Homeland/Wetland
US local filmmakers lay out the past 100 years of man v. nature in the Louisiana Homeland/Wetland and extrapolate into the future, both grim and heroic possibilities.
Closed captions available
Of the Basin
Of the Basin is an intimate portrait of a unique environment, and a means to celebrate and honor Wilven Hayes, one of the last fishermen of the Atchafalaya Basin.
Closed captions available
Lonely Is Her Great Age
A rough sketch for a climate catastrophe film never made, abandoned in the wake of a global pandemic.
Closed captions available
The Reversal
The past speaks to the present in this haunting animation of a photo archive capturing the reverse-engineering of an urban river at the turn of the nineteenth century.
QA: Shorts - "Riverfront"

For those of us who live surrounded by water, we’ve learned to appreciate the joys and fears of this powerful element. Through the short films WET, HOMELAND/WETLAND, OF THE BASIN, LONELY IS HER GREAT AGE, and THE REVERSAL, we experience the realities--both real and imagined--of how we interact with, and are controlled by, water.



Runtime: 59 minutes


Archival footage and an excerpted love letter recall New Orleans’ precarious relationship to the water that defines and sustains it.

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    2 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    USA
  • Director
    Jane Geisler
  • Editor
    Jane Geisler
Copy link
Add to calendar