Preservation and change amidst the lone and level sands.
Fire Island (working title) | 3-Channel Video
23:06 mins
Fire Island is a 3-channel video installation set between Fire Island National Seashore off the coast of Long Island in New York, and the filmmaker’s old home in Brooklyn. The video interweaves documentary footage, archival material, place-based sound design, and photogrammetry scans to explore the way memory lives within places. Amidst the shifting sands of Fire Island, a park ranger leads tours to find her childhood home which was destroyed by the National Park when they reclaimed the land; a scientist tracks deer making their home in the only federally designated wilderness in NY; a maintenance worker reads the 1964 Wilderness act on a lunch break; a man carves a campground out of the encroaching vines; and a couple virtually recreates their home amidst dreams of loss and change.
The film is dedicated to those who have lost their homes, both human and non-human, as a result of recent hurricanes, climate change, or the wandering dunes of time.
Fire Island is part of the multi-format documentary project, Topography. Supported by Headlands Center for the Arts Residency and Project Space, McEvoy Family Award for Film/Video, Fire Island National Seashore Arts Residency.
Credits
Hannah Jayanti | director, producer, editor, cinematographer, sound
Alexander Porter | producer, virtual cinematographer
