FELT ESSENCE OF:

While we are impermanent, our actions aren’t. This environment will outlive us- to be generous to that. To be respectful of the time it has lived, of the experiences it has had, the intensities it has created, felt and shared.

While focusing on the theme of impermanence, this short film exhibits my exploration and examination of how the body feels the essence of a place and how it portrays animism of this specific location. This piece was inspired by the musical unseen water flows within the glacier, the curvature and movement of the glacial pathway above me, as well as the soft and quiet snow that began to fall halfway through my improvisation.

Created by: Alexandra Lockhart Original music by: Nathan Wheeler Poetry by: Hannah Larrabee Narration by: Alison Bagli

Filmed in Svalbard, Norway.

Here—outside time, I draw closer to the bright blue mouth of the glacier
at a certain distance a kiss is a force that cannot be contained

Why not offer the ice to my tongue, my tongue to its softening dominion 

Each glacier just out of reach, even the one I touched running water underneath

If it had a voice
the sound would break us into deep vermillion

And the gentle power of her throat what else can beauty like this be all the earth inside me spinning

All this unexpected devotion

falling quiet as snow.

  • Poetry by: HANNAH LARRABEE