DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

With Afterwater, the idea took hold to make a film as fluid as water itself, to begin one story and make it flow seamlessly into another, drifting out ever further as parallels, rhymes, and echoes appear. The starting point were tales about submerged settlements and drowned histories which evolved into a study of a certain type of landscape: a reflective surface onto which one projects stories and images. This film explores lakes as biotopes and repositories of imagination, capturing a multitude of species, languages, materials, temporalities and ways of being together. A group of people gather by the side of a lake and, as they plunge into it, the film shifts from present to past and future, from digital to celluloid and analogue video, from community to community, body to body. Springing from the experience of floating in cold water and that feeling of being touched by everything, this is a film that forages for links between what we are, what we have forgotten, and what we can’t yet see.