HÚNAFLÓI

2015 | 1080p HD Video | Color | Stereo Audio | Iceland; Greenland Sea | English; Icelandic | 00:13:36

Húnaflói is a video art piece about searching, the carbon cycle, love, fishermen, scientists, personal memory, fish memory, and the things fish tell one another.

Set in the fishing villages around Húna Bay, in far northern Iceland in the dead of winter, Húnaflói explores questions of loss, fluidity, and remembering at the intersection of a tiny community's cod fishermen, and the village's unlikely resident marine biotechnologists and fisheries scientists.

Fishermen go to sea looking for fish to catch and kill—sometimes they catch fish, sometimes they catch much more than fish.
Scientists look to the bodies of fish, they ask the fish questions by studying their physiology—sometimes they find answers, mostly they find questions.
An artist looks for answers and helps the fishermen on the fishing boats. They kill many fish and wonder what we become after we die.
And many fathoms down, deep in the gray Greenland Sea, old cod teach young cod how to migrate and where to go, and fish sing and bellow and call out to one another like a chorus of birds and beasts.

This project was supported by The Weight of Mountains filmmaking residency program.