‘Concrete Turned to Sand’ Dives Into Oyster Farms, With Otherworldly Imagery From the ‘Backrooms’ DP (Exclusive Clip)
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The Hollywood Reporter notes that Jessica Johnson and Ryan Ermacora's documentary "Concrete Turned to Sand" will make its international premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, carrying an environmental thesis that asks audiences to reconsider their relationship to the natural world. The film turns its lens on oyster farms, rendered in the same liminal visual language that cinematographer Paulius Kontijevas brought to the unsettling digital spaces of the "Backrooms" phenomenon. That pairing of ecological inquiry with otherworldly imagery suggests a growing appetite in documentary cinema for treating environmental collapse as something felt in the body before it is understood by the mind.
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Source: Hollywood Reporter, “‘Concrete Turned to Sand’ Dives Into Oyster Farms, With Otherworldly Imagery From the ‘Backrooms’ DP (Exclusive Clip)”. Read the original →
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