A River Holds a Perfect Memory
2025
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Synopsis
Bodies of water are intervened upon, moved, disrupted and exploited. Labouring bodies experience similar pressures from the same forces of power and extraction. Distant communities – Northern England and Jamaica – share similar histories of manipulation and oppression whose record is kept in the living memory of its waterways. But water, like people, can find a way to exert its own will.
A River Holds a Perfect Memory (2025) is a 17 min documentary short film by Hope Strickland. Bodies of water are intervened upon, moved, disrupted and exploited.
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Festival History
- Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2025 generic
- Guanajuato International Film Festival 2025 generic
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025 generic
