Description: Clare Dearnaley is an established filmmaker and artist. She works independently and by commission, creating works for screening, exhibition, broadcast, and online platforms.
A short film created in collaboration with Mark Carey responding to live artwork by Jane Mason, Grace Surman and Gary Winters on Exmouth beach. With music by Alison Cotton.
Taking the fluidity and vulnerability of the intertidal zone as a metaphor for our relationship with the environment, It weaves a narrative as performers listen to and interact with the sea.
The day was held at sunrise and sunset by a choreographic instruction for a group of sea swimmers and their lifeguard support intervened by; the distressed fish, the desolate seal and the seagrass herder.