The Sea Oracle

LOOKING AT THE SEA
Peter Hutton
(2001)
16mm, cor, p&b, mudo, 15min

Let us gather by the sea, she said.

Natural magic appearing and disappearing, wave after wave, summoned, awaited for.

Let us look together at the sea, she said.

From the alluring waters as seen by Peter Hutton from the west coast of Ireland, to the oceanic inscriptions returned by the sea to David Gatten off the North Carolina coast, towards the elusive last ray of the dying sun Tacita Dean has captured in the west coast of Madagascar.

Let us listen to the water, the water said.

Untameable, haunting, reclaiming.

From the earth to the sea: Impermanence.

From the river to the sea: Turbulence.

At a loss, we at sea, a smothered dream.

An unforseen belief in what we see.

O Cinema Fulgor agradece a Monokino e a The Social Life of Film, pelo convite para programar The Sea Oracle no festival de filmes mudos sobre o mar SHHH, por ocasião do The Social Life of Film.