the golden age of fish (trailer)

The Golden Age of Fish (2008) is an experimental feature film that interweaves various fragmentary narratives concerning Cleveland, Ohio's landscape from its prehistoric past to late twentieth century visual representation. Though a series of motif, an African American woman geologist is the catalyst that narrates Cleveland's past. The collage of scripted scenes, shot in a variety of formats, and old news 16mm film footage create traces of a narrative structure. The title, The Golden Age of Fish, references the geologist's specimens, Devonian age Cleveland Shale. The Devonian period (417 to 354 million years ago) is when many new kinds of fish appeared. (60:00, color and black/white)

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• kevin
• jerome
• everson
• experimental
• film
• art
• labor
• cleveland
• shale
• ohio