Grasshopper Film has revealed the trailer for an indie documentary hybrid film called Holding Back the Tide, about oysters. Arriving in select theaters (starting at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema in NYC) in September with more cities throughout the fall. This first premiered at the 2023 DOC NYC Film Festival, and also played at the 2024 Thessaloniki Doc Festival. Holding Back the Tide is a docu-poetic meditation on New York’s oysters and their transformations in the face of an uncertain future. Believe it or not, NYC used to be the world’s oyster capital. “Now their specter haunts the city through queer characters embodying ancient myth, discovering the overlooked history and biology of the bivalve that built the city. As environmentalists restore them to the harbor, we look to the oyster as a queer icon, entangled with nature, with much to teach about our continued survival.” Interesting, right? They add: “As a non-binary queer filmmaker working with a subject that regularly changes its sex as part of its reproductive process, it was important for me to create a vision of the oysters’ cultural economy that celebrated the environmental heroism of the oyster…” Dive in. // Continue Reading ›
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