What the Sea Left Behind

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 4 min
  • Premiere: 2010. July 15.

An audio-visual portrait of the Gowanus Canal using binaural contact microphones, a homemade hydrophone, and a last roll of Super-8mm Kodachrome. Since its creation in 1867, the canal’s murky bottom has absorbed over a century of industrial pollutants and raw sewage. Yet the canal retains a unique rustic beauty due to this very toxicity. The film asks us to open our eyes and ears to meet a hidden world submerged within this forgotten and neglected estuary.

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Kevin T. Allen

Director of Photography

Directing

Kevin T. Allen

Director

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Camera

Kevin T. Allen

Director of Photography

Directing

Kevin T. Allen

Director

Sound