On the south­east coast of Eng­land, the unsta­ble nature of the coast­line seems to give rise to mys­ti­cal more-than-human encoun­ters. Set over the course of a single tidal cycle—from low tide to high—the film gently unrav­els how shift­ing waters shape both human and non-human engage­ments with place. During a single tidal cycle, fish­er­men, bait pumpers, machine cranes, a mete­o­rol­o­gist, lug­worms and mol­luscs, come and go. Like the sea itself, expe­ri­enc­ing the tides as daily forces of change and lim­i­ta­tion, they become the endur­ing con­nec­tor of the local and the global.

Marina Espinach is a film­mak­er based in Barcelona, Spain. She holds an MA in Visual Anthro­pol­o­gy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­ches­ter, a BA in Direct­ing and Scriptwrit­ing from Bande à Part Film School in Barcelona, and a BA in Anthro­pol­o­gy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Barcelona.

Olivia Hird is based in Man­ches­ter. She earned a BA in Film Stud­ies from King’s Col­lege London and an MA in Visual Anthro­pol­o­gy from the Grana­da Centre for Visual Anthro­pol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Manchester.