Beach Events

This film completes a trilogy of landscapepoetry films which include Waterworx 1982 and Landfall 1983 and was shot near the family home on the Northumberland Strait in Prince Edward Island In writing the text for Beach Events I wanted to challenge the cinemas dominant present tense by imitating primitive event poetry referring superficially to action present on the screen but gradually slipping out of synchronization with its referent This practice together with reading a kind of subconscious internal monologue also based on the films events but only those past and future helps the viewer transcend the spectacle of the present and be aware of a larger temporal universe In this film it informs a dialectic of internal and external nature temporal presence and absence the conscious and subconscious RH