George Kuchar's fever dream: a Bronx power outage sends him to sea with dolphins and cosmic yearning.
A metropolis awash in electrical overdrive crashes in the heat of summer and sends a Bronxite into the clutches of a waterworld further north. It is there that we witness the cooling fogs and diving mammals of maritime yore and sail free in winds of a nautical nature. A nature that fills the summer sky with twinkling tidbits and the tummy with protein rich denizens of Neptune’s soup. A tour of the towering turrets of tomorrow land and the spatial splendor of yesterday’s yearnings captured on both chemical and electrical media.
Direction
Kuchar's unhinged narration turns home video into cosmic poetry.
Practical Effects
Chemical film textures that no filter can fake.
Director
George Kuchar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kuchar shot this during an actual 2003 NYC blackout, turning documentary circumstance into absurdist autobiography.
Part of Kuchar's late-period digital-analog hybrid era, where the underground legend embraced consumer tech while mourning chemical film's extinction.
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