Flood In Progress

FLOOD IN PROGRESS is a film dealing with chronic illness, disease, and shelter as a body connects to city landscapes and the nature that surrounds us and that we relate to.
A note on its intention and what it is responding to:
About 43 people lost their lives in New York
and New Jersey in the floods of 2021.
7 of them remain unnamed, people who have not been
identified, and beyond that so many who lost so much
to just be told to start again, and to face anew
the calculus of suffering that this city presents
to working class and poor folk.
People who could have survived the waters
if only infrastructures to sustain their life were in place,
where instead we face structures that were made to center
the subjugation and sacrifice of bodies to the enshrinement
of capital. Backed into a corner, we face the materiality
and memory of water and its inevitable return.
This film is an attempt at listening, even when
the sounds seem to come only from the horridness of it all
seeing that there are also echoes and the memory
of futures beyond survival taking form.