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Drag City Presents: Sailing A Sinking Sea + live score by BITCHIN BAJAS
Excerpt from the film:
http://sailingasinkingsea.com/Excerpt-I-Met-My-Husband-in-the-Middle-of-the-Sea
Sailing A Sinking Sea is a feature-length experimental documentary exploring the culture of the Moken people of Burma and Thailand. The Moken are a seafaring community and one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in Asia, traditionally spending eight months out of the year in thatch-roofed wooden boats. Wholly reliant upon the sea, their entire belief system revolves around water. Sailing A Sinking Sea weaves a visual and aural tapestry of Moken mythologies and present-day practices. As a viewer you will swim under the sea past fishes and mermaids, sail boats across turquoise waters, land on 13 different islands, step inside sea shanties on stilts, delve into the minds of shamans, become possessed through the worship of sea gods, dance between lovers and emerge drenched in Moken mythology.
The film is originally scored by Bitchin Bajas (Drag City). For the first time ever, Bitchin Bajas will be performing a live score to the film. Bitchin Bajas create meditative textured compositions, blending acoustic and electronic instruments over rhythmic pulses and drones.
"Sailing A Sinking Sea" premiered at SXSW last year and went on to play Hot Docs, BFI London, Margaret Mead and recently won the Audience Choice Award at the Singapore International Film Festival.
"This loving impressionistic tribute is an outlier in contemporary cinema, springing as it does from the 1930s ethnographic cinema of Robert Flaherty as well as the later visions of Jean Rouch in the '60s and Robert Gardner (who's cited in the credits) in the '70s and '80s." - Carson Lund, Slant Magazine
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LocationThe Den Theater (View)
1333 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL., IL 60642
United States
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| Minimum Age: 5 |
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
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