Experimental film showcases the dangers and comforts of water, highlighting humans' impact on oceans and aquatic life.
Sea-Changes (2021) is an experimental film that takes the viewer on a journey in and out of the water, encountering both comforting and scary moments. The viewer is invited to reflect on what water and being in water represents, its pleasures and dangers, but also the immeasurable damage humans inflict on the oceans of the world and the many creatures that inhabit them. The images used in the film are a combination of original smartphone images of water bodies and water activities, diving footage filmed on GoPro, archival footage (educational films, science films) and anonymous home movies about water and swimming, all edited to a sound-collage of fiction and non-fiction film excerpts, mixed with newly recorded sounds. Sea-Changes thus acts as a fantastical aquatic environment, a timeless space of anti-civilization.
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Gerda Cammaer (2025) studied this question.