Holding Back the Tide Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Holding Back the Tide from filmmaker Emile Packer is an impressionistic hybrid documentary that traces the oyster through its many life cycles in New York City, once the world’s oyster capital. Now their specter haunts the city through queer characters embodying ancient myth, discovering the overlooked history and biology of the bivalve that built the city. As environmentalists restore them to the harbor, we look to the oyster as a queer icon, entangled with nature, with much to teach about our continued survival. Holding Back the Tide is directed by the experimental filmmaker Emily Packer.
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00:00Lower Manhattan was all marshland.
00:11It was all just oyster shells.
00:13It was like our first line of defense in terms of coastal protection.
00:16But now, oyster beds are dead.
00:19They're not solitary creatures.
00:36What they really want to do is attach to one another and build a whole community together.
00:43The breakwaters will be able to not only eliminate erosion but reverse it.
00:49People are more important to me these days than the oysters.
00:54The better product is society.
01:08Keep your head back.
01:10Touch your tongue to the moment, to the recipe that hasn't changed in millions of years.
01:21Serve with lemon.
01:23If you must.