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.
