Beach Events
Synopsis
This film completes a trilogy of landscape/poetry films, which include “Waterworx” (1982) and “Landfall” (1983), and was shot near the family home on the Northumberland Strait in Prince Edward Island. In writing the text for “Beach Events,” I wanted to challenge the cinema's dominant present tense by imitating primitive “event” poetry, referring superficially to action present on the screen, but gradually slipping out of synchronization with its referent. This practice, together with reading a kind of sub-conscious, internal monologue (also based on the film's events, but only those past and future), helps the viewer transcend the spectacle of the present, and be aware of a larger temporal universe. In this film it informs a dialectic of internal and external nature, temporal presence and absence, the conscious and sub-conscious. (RH)
Key Information & Fast Facts
- Director
- Rick Hancox
- Original Title
- Beach Events
- Country of Origin
- Canada
- Spoken Languages
- English
- Runtime
- 8m
Creative Leadership & Key Crew
Rick Hancox
Department Leadership Roster
Rick Hancox
Director
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What is Beach Events about?
This film completes a trilogy of landscape/poetry films, which include “Waterworx” (1982) and “Landfall” (1983), and was shot near the family home on the Northumberland Strait in Prince Edward Island. In writing the text for “Beach Events,” I wanted to challenge the cinema's dominant present tense by imitating primitive “event” poetry, referring superficially to action present on the screen, but gradually slipping out of synchronization with its referent. This practice, together with reading a kind of sub-conscious, internal monologue (also based on the film's events, but only those past and future), helps the viewer transcend the spectacle of the present, and be aware of a larger temporal universe. In this film it informs a dialectic of internal and external nature, temporal presence and absence, the conscious and sub-conscious. (RH)
Who directed Beach Events?
Beach Events was directed by Rick Hancox.
Who stars in Beach Events?
The principal cast of Beach Events includes Not specified.
When was Beach Events released and how long is it?
Beach Events was released in 1984 with a total runtime of 8m.