Movie

Lago Gatún

2021 · 59 min

A patient, contemplative drift through light, water and machinery that rewards close attention with quiet historical unease.

Directed by: Kevin Jerome Everson
Genres: Documentary

Overview: The artist travels through the Panama Canal, filming 10-minute reels of 16mm to create an almost abstract journey modulated in time through the light and dark of the opening and closing locks. Alternating with submerged darkness, we observe the beauty of the landscape, and the global trade that the canal was built to facilitate; bringing to mind that its American engineers imposed US segregation laws on the canal’s Jamaican migrant workforce.

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Directed by: Kevin Jerome Everson
Genres: Documentary

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Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: colonialism
race
work
nature
power
Places: sea
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Humour	0
Realism	9
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Tension	2
Darkness	3
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	4

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