Other Tidal Effects

Other Tidal Effects — Plot

"And there are other tidal effects, mysterious and intangible."-Rachel Carson, "The Edge of the Sea" (1955). An attempt to communicate my lived experience of epilepsy through form. Mimicking mind-body dissociation and disorientation, while gesturing towards how relational entanglements sustain us. A riddle composed of fragments–cyanotype postcard exchanges with friends, an effusive letter read aloud by someone who didn’t write it, my EEG readout as a score, and my mother half-translating a song memorized in childhood.

• Release date
• October 22, 2021
• Runtime
• 7 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Sofia Theodore-Pierce