Free and Open to the Public.

Along the San Andreas fault line in Southern California, Indigenous palm trees and date palms imported from the Middle East flourish. The people who tend to them reflect a landscape of frictions and affections shaped over generations by agriculture, luxury real estate, and border politics. Like the infinity storytelling of The 1001 Nights, stories fold into dreams and back into stories, a constellation of voices settle over mountains and into the earth. Intertwining color 16mm with textural black and white film hand processed with the dates leftover from harvest and plants native to the valley Feet in Water, Head on Fire is a sensory, polyvocal evocation of place.

Feet in Water, Head on Fire was made over five years through a collaborative process both behind and in front of the camera.

This screening will be followed by a live virtual Q&A with the artist.

Terra Long is a filmmaker whose work circles cultural, personal, and (un)natural histories embedded within the landscape. Her practice is collaborative, with a commitment to deep listening and material explorations of celluloid. Her work has shown widely in festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival, Media City, CPH:DOX, Rotterdam, and IDFA among others. Her first feature film Feet in Water, Head on Fire, premiered at True/False and is currently circulating. She frequently collaborates as lead editor on documentary films including Going to Mars: the Nikki Giovanni Project (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2023) and regularly consults on films, including as a Story and Edit Lab advisor with the Sundance Institute. She studied at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University and received her MFA in film from York University.

She lives and works on the traditional territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

This event is organized by the Mimesis Documentary Festival and hosted by the Boulder Public Library.