Date of Award
Fall 1-3-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Film and Media Studies
First Advisor
Michael Gitlin
Second Advisor
Rachel Stevens
Third Advisor
Andrew Lund
Academic Program Adviser
Andrew Lund
Abstract
The Whelming Sea is a thirty-minute experimental documentary that reveals the moments of entanglement between three animals living along the Mid-Atlantic shoreline; curious humans, spawning horseshoe crabs, and migratory shorebirds. Working from the realm of multispecies ethnography, the film shifts the subjective positioning of the viewer between the human and nonhuman to suggest the complexity of our enmeshed experience. In the face of this current era of mass extinction, the film explores the limitations and poetic possibilities of scientific encounters with the lives of others.
Recommended Citation
Hanley, Sean, "The Whelming Sea" (2020). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/553
Included in
Film Production Commons, Marine Biology Commons, Ornithology Commons