872765
872765

Lago Gatún

2021-10-21 en 59m
The artist travels through the Panama Canal, filming 10-minute reels of 16mm to create an almost abstract journey modulated in time through the light and dark of the opening and closing locks. Alternating with submerged darkness, we observe the beauty of the landscape, and the global trade that the canal was built to facilitate; bringing to mind that its American engineers imposed US segregation laws on the canal’s Jamaican migrant workforce.

Director

Kevin Jerome Everson

Sound Recordist

Anna Brotman-Krass

Sound Recordist

Anthony Restivo

Producer

Kevin Jerome Everson

Sound Recordist

Elizabeth Culbertson

Producer

Madeleine Molyneaux

Status

Released

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