The Poets' Pier
The Poets' Pier is a beautiful ten minute film, an evocative documentary shot and edited in the "video poem" tradition
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Dockumentary
- Dockumentary is a 56 minute video about the diverse species that live around the Olga Public Dock, human dock activities and subcultures, as well as the larger interspecies community that they form together and the environmental challenges and opportunities docks present
- Catch the Trailer below
- Dockumentary: The Birds' Dock distills the main theme of the film into a more focused 20 minute documentary short emphasizing the dock's fascinating bird life
- Both films will be posted here, YouTube, and Vimeo soon, after festival screenings are completed
- See the References and Citations section below for more information about the animals and activities described in the film
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