Sea Movies

Aquatic life, textures, and viscera found along the Northern California coast.

Val Sebald is an author who comes to the Island to retreat from life and land. There he lives among the islanders and his favorite women, the...

I Go Further Under is inspired by the true story of Jane Cooper who, in 1971, at 17 years of age, arrived in Hobart from Melbourne and asked local...

This documentary film portrays five captains. It shows their everyday life on board, and how they fulfill their duties and make decisions. But it...

A materialist and animist critique of European colonial history, reading the past as something entangled within the present, made up of living and...

On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues.

Lucía just moved to a new appartment in the suburbs of Madrid, there she will try to start over, until she receives a very particular visit...

This animated film flows through a vibrant underwater landscape, shown at night time. Sound and picture are drawn directly on film - cameraless...

Two pinnipeds see their rest interrupted.

In a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore and where adults imitate things from the past, dozens of children are building sand pies on an...

An elder lighthouse keeper takes care of what has been his home for years. Old and secluded from society, he's disturbed by mysterious bottled...

An homage to the weird and wonderful world of B-movies, this short fauxdocumentary by film artist Chris Gerrard splices together classic clips with...

While the Pelagic Life team is chasing the elusive sardine baitball in the open ocean near Baja California, they stumble upon a crude shark fishing...

A lonely deodorant contemplates sanity and darkness and makes a drastic choice that results in a weird journey.

A dance between moon and ocean, forests and rivers. A short film by Scott Barley, originally made for a "half moon phase" sequence for Tadhg...

A Spanish sailor becomes involved with a woman whose child was stolen by the mafia.