Paradise Springs
Director Brigid McCaffrey
Countries United States
Duration 33 min
Synopsis
Ren travels through and lives within the Mojave Desert. She traces its volcanic and seismic actualities, locates water sources and the relics of previous inhabitants, and identifies landscape features that will conceal her mobile shelter from public view. The film consists of a succession of roving soliloquies and terrain crossings as the wandering geologist describes her interactions with the natural world, while conveying a persistent unease with civic life. This portrait offers an invitation into the contemplations of solitude and fragments of a personal mythology set within a geologic existence.
Ren travels through and lives within the Mojave Desert. She traces its volcanic and seismic actualities, locates water sources and the relics of previous inhabitants, and identifies landscape features that will conceal her mobile shelter from public view. The film consists of a succession of roving soliloquies and terrain crossings as the wandering geologist describes her interactions with the natural world, while conveying a persistent unease with civic life. This portrait offers an invitation into the contemplations of solitude and fragments of a personal mythology set within a geologic existence.