72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Crashing Waves

Lucy Kerr
USA      19 m.
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While images produced for Hollywood appear slick and controlled, a stunt performer's testimony in Crashing Waves reveals otherwise, as they parse out all of the elements that go into a car crashing off a cliff and diving into the water for a TV show. Though the image produced and edited creates a split-second moment of violence for the viewer's pleasure, Crashing Waves uncovers the months of labor, training, and danger that the stunt involved, contingent on capitalist, patriarchal hierarchies in the film industry. The film meditates on the stakes of the real in the dominant culture's production of images and emphasizes the importance of the ethics of care.

Director
Lucy Kerr (USA)
Screenplay
Jess Harbeck, Lucy Kerr
Photography
Alexey Kurbatov
Edition
Lucy Kerr
Music
Sara Suárez
Sound
Sara Suárez
Cast
Kelli Scarangello
Narrator
Lucy Kerr
Featuring
Court Schwartz
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
Running Time
19 m.
Original language of the film
English
Country
USA
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