On an unknown beach / a film by Adam Luxton & Summer Agnew.

Contributor(s): Luxton, Adam | Agnew, Summer | Tracey, Dianne M | Russell, Bruce | Hornblow, David.
Material type: materialTypeLabelVisual materialPublisher: [Auckland, N.Z. : Ponzi Pictures Limited, 2016]Description: 1 online resource (1 video file ; approximately 90 mins) : sound, colour.Subject(s): VOYAGES | DEEP SEA FAUNA | CHATHAM RISE | SEAMOUNTS | BOTTOM TRAWLING | ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT | CORALS | TANGAROA (SHIP) | CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE, N.Z., 2011 | CHRISTCHURCH | URBANIZATION | REGENERATION | SOUND RECORDING | THERAPY | NEW ZEALANDHoldings: ELECTRONIC Online resources: NIWA document server
Production Credits: Producers: Gayle Hogan, Adam Luxton, Summer Agnew.
Featuring: Di Tracey, Bruce Russell, David Hornblow.Summary: On An Unknown Beach follows 3 different characters as they each explore a personal landscape. For deep-sea coral scientist Di Tracey, the landscape is the seabed of the Chatham Rise which has been impacted by commercial trawl fisheries over many years. Her team of scientists aboard the research vessel Tangaroa are surveying seamounts which comprise the primary habitat of many deep-sea corals. The film takes in her documentation of the impacts left by deep ocean trawling, her search for intact habitats, and her scientific inquiry of the association of species within these habitats. Her journey in the film concluded with surveying massive colonies of the habitat forming stony coral species Solenosmila variabilis on an unfished seamount.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
VIDEO VIDEO WELLINGTON ONLINE ELECTRONIC 1 Not For Loan 394943

Technical. Genre: Speculative Documentary. Country of Production: New Zealand. Directors: Adam Luxton & Summer Agnew. Producers: Gayle Hogan, Adam Luxton & Summer Agnew. Executive Producer: Philippa Campbell. Featuring: Di Tracey, Bruce Russell & David Hornblow. Year of Production: 2016. Duration: 90mins. Shooting Format: Anamorphic 2K Digital Negative. Screening Format: 2K DCP. Aspect: 2.39:1
Sound: 5.1 Surround

Synopsis. A seabed littered in rubble. Emotional damage unearthed under hypnosis. A city in ruins following an earthquake.

On An Unknown Beach is a cinematic alchemy of three explorers, each surveying unique landscapes of ruin.

Producers: Gayle Hogan, Adam Luxton, Summer Agnew.

Featuring: Di Tracey, Bruce Russell, David Hornblow.

On An Unknown Beach follows 3 different characters as they each explore a personal landscape. For deep-sea coral scientist Di Tracey, the landscape is the seabed of the Chatham Rise which has been impacted by commercial trawl fisheries over many years. Her team of scientists aboard the research vessel Tangaroa are surveying seamounts which comprise the primary habitat of many deep-sea corals. The film takes in her documentation of the impacts left by deep ocean trawling, her search for intact habitats, and her scientific inquiry of the association of species within these habitats. Her journey in the film concluded with surveying massive colonies of the habitat forming stony coral species Solenosmila variabilis on an unfished seamount.

Streaming video file ; digital, stereo.

ELECTRONIC

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha