Water

A film exploring the impulsive nature of radiation, Water is the last dream of a dying man. Using brilliant blue and black images from cross-processed 16mm, the film explores the end of the 3 Chernobyl divers – three men who sacrificed their lives to drain a pool of radioactive hydrogen peroxide beneath the burning reactor no. 4 during the Chernobyl disaster. Mutating out of darkness in to a piercing blue, Water drifts under the surface of consciousness and into final memories. The full-length version of the Lion series is available through the CFMDC.

Film Maker
McIntyre, Daniel
Year
2014
Country
Canada/Ukraine
Length
4
Language
No dialogue with English/Ukrainian intertitles
Category
body, Earth, Ecology, environment, found footage, history, Mental Health, science/medicine
Genre
documentary, experimental, hand-processed, queer