TIDES

Tides is a silent, black-and-white 16mm meditation on labor and landscape at the edge of the Atlantic. Filmed on Swan’s Island, Maine, the work traces the daily gestures of lobstermen and kelp harvesters whose lives are tethered to the rhythms of tide and season. Without dialogue or narration, the film unfolds as a visual poem—attuned to texture, motion, and the enduring intimacy between human bodies and the working sea. Tides bears witness to a community in quiet motion, resilient in the face of both change and continuity. 

This is not a documentary in the traditional sense. It does not explain. It does not interview. It watches. It lingers. It asks you to notice the way seaweed is lifted from the ocean, the way a trap is hauled in and emptied, the way boots move across the deck of a boat slick with salt. What emerges is not a story, but a rhythm—a record of endurance and erosion, of a community held together by weathered routines and an unspoken understanding of what it means to work at the edge of the world.

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Tides is a meditation on what remains when everything else is shifting: economies, ecologies, the meaning of tradition. It is a portrait of a place that rarely asks to be seen, rendered with care, clarity, and the kind of attention that feels almost like devotion