Philip Whalen

This film portrays my friend Philip Whalen, a Zen Buddhist monk and poet, reading from his book The Art of Literature. There is a play of spotlight and shadow in this work which emphasizes the elusiveness of truth in poe

A Song for the Whales

A poetic perspective about duty and legacy. Charming for symbols, connection between siblings and drawings. Cold and hopeful. A prince. His men. His little brother. And a sort of duty - the song for whales. A spear teari

ASHA DE VOS ON STUDYING BLUE WHALES

Sri Lankan marine biologist and ocean educator Asha de Vos talks about the blue whale skeleton at the Colombo National Museum that inspired her as a child, and the challenges of being a South Asian woman in science.

Wet Whales

Bodies drift at the water's edge, colliding with one another and surrendering to the rhythm of the waves. A harmonious interplay of sun, water, touch, and the simple joy of losing oneself together.

GARDENS FOR WHALES

in november 2022, home is where recorded 'the whaler' with jack shirley at the atomic garden studio in oakland, california. together, they collaborated closely to form it all together. this serves as a documentation of t

Just As Whales Miss Forest, Birds Miss The Sea

A couple who met and fell in love in China. The boy wants the girl to come with him to study in England, but the girl refuses. A few years later, the girl comes to England to study and tries to find out where the boy use

Watching The Whales

You are about to enter the sea, to spend half an hour with some of the most fascinating and enigmatic animals on earth, the whales and dolphins. You will meet the petite spinner dolphin, named for its tendency to jump an

Song of Whales

After a brutal night at sea, a weary fisherman washes ashore, unconscious. As he stirs, he unwittingly awakens the grieving spirit of a mother whale. Her haunting song echoes with sorrow for her lost child. Drawn by her

The Last Whalers of São Miguel

In this documentary, islanders relive the Azores´controversial whaling past and examine the reasons why few historical traces of that era remain.

The whaleman

A short documentary film that tells the story of a craft rooted in Yanbu -the sea- culture. The events of the film move towards penetrating into the depths and dimensions of the term " whaler "

The most ugly movie.Save the whales

A film about the rescue of the whales. Sorry, we didn’t have whales.

The Life Of Whales And Dolphins

To Rona on a Whaler

A film following the journey of a whaling ship to the Scottish island of Rona, and its return to the whaling station on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides.

Whales of the High Desert

The story of James Wickham, who reportedly brought whales to Great Salt Lake in the 1870s. As the debate around the legend's truth unfolds, the film highlights the importance of preserving the dying lake for the sake of

Along the Way with the Gray Whales

The film tells about the fate of a species that was on the verge of total extinction due to whaling in the past, and today is listed in the Red Book of Russia.

Len and the Song of the Whales

Len's phobia is water, and her tribe lives to the rhythm of the sea: the whales are their spirit guides. She feels like an outcast. Then their lives are disrupted when storms hit, and a jaguar-man tells Len to convince h

The kid, the Sea and the Whales

Jerónimo is a young boy who lives on a beach on the Colombian Pacific coast where he arrived with his mother after being forcibly displaced. After his mother’s death, Jerónimo hears about a local legend that claims that

USA: Poetry: Philip Whalen and Gary Snyder

Richard O. Moore’s own poetic practice and literary training permeate his films, which bring the spectator into the poet’s world, each documentary an invitation to join the poet and her/his poetry. “A true pioneer of the

Something Like Whales

In a dying industrial neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Queensgate Train Yard pulses with life. A local worker describes the haunting sound emanating from the yard as "something like whales." This film was shot in pa

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