Directed by: Anne Ciecko
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime: 3:34
Category: Short Film
An American traveler meditates upon the unsettling discovery that climate change has transformed rivers, towns, and roads of the Northeast into floodlands; and offers a videopoetic tribute to the environment and the largely displaced Indigenous peoples: their natural stewardship, creation stories, and evocative place names.
Director Biography – Anne Ciecko
Anne Ciecko is a U.S.-based maker, writer, and educator. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she currently lives and works in Amherst, Massachusetts, with grateful acknowledgement of these locations on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded homelands of the Lenape, Pocumtuck, and Nonotuck peoples. Her poetry films and short experimental works have received official selection at festivals in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Cyprus, England, France, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States, and Wales.