The Thinking Machine 9: The Sea Speaks

In 1927, filmmakertheorist Jean Epstein (18971953) followed an impulse toward the exterior, trading the Parisian avantgarde for an encounter with the raw nature and culture of Brittany. Stripping out the plots and male characters, then forming a composite poem (using seven films) from images and sounds of the sea and women, this audiovisual essay echoes James Schneider s insight: By using cinema to grant perspective to the nonhuman to the oceans, the tides, the tempests humankind gains a vital perspective on Cristina Álvarez López Adrian Martin, June 2017