Bass River: 10 Hour Film by Jeffrey Blondes

Bass River: 10 Hour Film2010

Video (color, silent), computer, screen or projectorDimensions variable, portrait orientation 10 hour, loopEdition of 7, 2 AP

Ten hour film from low tide to a high tide of 14 meters: The highest tide coefficient on the planet. Filmed looking inland towards Five Islands, Nova Scotia, Canada, Bass River's peaceful landscape belies the power of 100 billion tons of seawater flowing in and out every six hours and +/-13 minutes. The tilted pylons, with their projected shadows on the sand, (and then their mirror reflections on the water at high tide,) function as a sundial, showing not only the evolution of time, but reminding the viewer of the rhythm of the tide and the enormous force of a slowly rising sea.

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Bass River: 10 Hour Film by Jeffrey Blondes, 2010