Lago Gatún
59 mins
The artist travels through the Panama Canal, filming 10-minute reels of 16mm to create an almost abstract journey modulated in time through the light and dark of the opening and closing locks. Alternating with submerged darkness, we observe the beauty of the landscape, and the global trade that the canal was built to facilitate; bringing to mind that its American engineers imposed US segregation laws on the canal’s Jamaican migrant workforce.
Elizabeth Culbertson
Sound Recordist
Kevin Jerome Everson
Producer
Anna Brotman-Krass
Sound Recordist
Kahlil I. Pedizisai
Additional Camera
Anthony Restivo
Sound Recordist
Sandy Williams IV
Assistant Camera
Jack Doerner
Assistant Camera