TRAILER 1:13 min
A FIELD GUIDE TO COASTAL FORTIFICATIONS
short non-fiction
2023; 24 min; 16mm
A Field Guide to Coastal Fortifications is an essay film charting the technological evolution of military bunkers built within the San Francisco Bay’s eroding coast. The film observes a dynamic geological relationship between the literal structures of colonial power, and the land itself. As symbols of might, military bunkers were tasked with protecting the coast from ‘perceived threats.’ Constructed, reconstructed and updated over time, these structures stood and waited for the enemy that never came. Against the backdrop of the changing landscape and its mythology, the film looks at the evolution of military technologies of seeing.
AWARDS
Best Film Award, National Competition - 16th Beldocs IDFF, Belgrade, Serbia
Honorable Mention - Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
SCREENINGS
World Premiere - International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023
Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois 2023
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, Ohio 2023
Beldocs IDFF, Belgrade, Serbia 2023
Liburnia Film Festival, Opatija, Croatia 2023
Visible Evidence XXIX, Udine, Italy 2023
Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma, WA 2023
Green Film Festival of San Francisco - San Francisco, CA 2023
ANALOGICA, Bolzano, Italy 2023
Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, Germany 2023
San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA 2024