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IN THE MARITIME FREQUENCIES (2025, 15 min, 16mm) with filmmaker Greta Snider

On Thursday (5/22) at 4 PM at the Block Museum, Shifting Shorelines co-presents a screening and discussion of IN THE MARITIME FREQUENCIES, a new 15-minute film by the San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker Greta Snider. The film reflects on climate anxiety and the material and psychological transformation of our environment through an exploration of the analog 16mm film medium. 

About the film:

"For the past year, I have been working on a project exploring the coastal landscapes of San Francisco, using darkroom developers made from the solutions of our times - bay water, hand sanitizer, and “safe” detergent. The resultant movie is a conversation about how we internalize our climate emergency, letting mortalities large and small emerge only when the night puts our guard down. Inspired by the San Francisco Bay, dreams, and novelist Octavia Butler's vision of a future California, this film embraces the aesthetics of a crumbling society – expired and cast off film, backyard developing, hand cranked camera – because it is a premonition, a goodbye, and a last look over the shoulder." --Greta Snider

Snider will give a brief presentation about the film and the processes she used to create it, which she first explored in her earlier film QUARRY MOVIE (1999), which screens at the Block later on Thursday evening as part of the “Endless Reveries: Water in Experimental Film” program.

The film will then be followed by a brief Q&A.

Greta Snider is a San Francisco filmmaker who works with recycled film, reclaimed materials, and eco-friendly processing methods. Her films are distributed by Canyon Cinema and online; she teaches experimental cinema at San Francisco State University.

Presented with support from the Shifting Shorelines Working Group of the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.