The Sea is Too Much to Drink

« La mer à boire » is a french idiom that translates as « drinking the sea ». It means, a task too great to undertake, or asking too much of someone. I had some trouble with the sea that year.

Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection

Long live the new flesh. Surgery is the new sex. These Cronenbergian epigrams come together in a tableau that reimagines the ecstasy and eroticism of Renaissance sculpture for the future. Or is it already the present?

Old Age Pensioners' Seaside Holiday To Southend-on-Sea

Pensioners queue in the street for buses to a seaside excursion of sunshine and frolics.

A Sea Doesn't Tell Much

An experimental animated short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

I HAVEN'T BEEN TO THE SEA SINCE

A one-minute experimental video from personal family photographs and the sound of the sea. Moving between images of childhood, the work explores how memory changes when someone is no longer there to share it. The sea bec

Chile: The Longest Descent - Part 2 - 6890m To The Sea

How far can you ride a bike downhill? To find out GCN PresenterJames Lowsley-Williams has teamed up with adventurer Mark Beaumont for a challenge of epic proportions in the high Andes of Chile. Their goal is to scale the

Dee Dee Bridgewater Sings Kurt Weill Live at North Sea Jazz

Dee Dee Bridgewater Sings Kurt Weill Live at North Sea Jazz (2002)

What Language Does the Sea Speak? Yiddish in Tel Aviv

The translator of the Tanakh into modern Yiddish, the poet Yehoash (Shlomo Blumgarten), came to the land of Israel from New York in 1914 and settled in Rehovoth. He wanted to live in the ancestral land, and being ill wit

Octopus 3D - Geniuses from the Deep Sea

There are many myths about octopuses, the fascinating primeval creatures of the oceans. They are said to have torn even large ships into the depths! But researchers are now slowly discovering the secrets of these intelli

Sea Walkers: A Conversation with Granper Yam and Granmer Philine

A fisherman reflects on his fishing days in the Chagos prior to his displacement to Mauritius. He also shares the happiness he found in activities such as attending parties with séga music, exploring the islands of the a

At the Edge of the Abyss. Access to the Sea

March 2022. The Somalia battalion, as part of the main forces, was sent to storm fortified Mariupol in order to ensure the possibility of an offensive by the Russian Armed Forces. On the outskirts of the city, no one yet

The Scream of Dolores, or The Independence of Mexico

A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea

"In his description for A CHILD'S GARDEN, Brakhage quotes from poets Ronald Johnson and Charles Olson (and cites Johnson's poem "Beam 29" as inspiration). But the film also vaguely calls to mind William Blake—more perhap

The Envoy (even if it's not more than a truce)

Improvising a ritual with music, food, drinks and books, a group of friends call on the spirits of the past and confront them, unpacking the colonial legacies that inhabit an Airbnb house originally built for the last US

Displaced: The Bad Boys of the Exodus (aka The Sand and the Sea)

Two men from vastly different worlds who met at one fateful moment in the history of the state of Israel. One – the twenty-four-year-old captain of the Exodus ship, a native of the land soon to become Israel, already a

Deep-Sea’s Rainbow

Beneath the ocean lies a world more precious than gold. As a sperm whale carries the sun into the deep sea, its light is passed on through generations of life. This poetic cut-out animation portrays the mysterious cycles

Stukas of the Sea: German Speedboats in World War II

This documentary uses original newsreels to tell the story of the German Stukas deployed in the Second World War. Designed as small, high-speed torpedo boats, there were approximately 200 Stukas built and used in the Cha

While the men are away at sea

Fish is smoke-cured by women while men are away at sea

Why Would People Go to See the Sea

Hyojoo lives taking care of her younger brother, a theater actor. One day he goes missing, and she meets Wonyoung, a believer of the cult 'Soulism', which her younger brother had belonged to. Hyojoo goes with Wonyoung to

A Future with No More Sea Ice

The sea ice in the Arctic could potentially disappear by 2050. The traditions of Greenland's Inuits are already changing. We are witnesses to Sikoqqinngisaannassooq – a future without sea ice.