Holding Back the Tide

Name: Holding Back the Tide
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 6, 2024
Duration: 77 min

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: September 6, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Holding Back the Tide is an impressionistic hybrid documentary that traces the oyster through its many life cycles in New York, 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. AsHolding Back the Tide is an impressionistic hybrid documentary that traces the oyster through its many life cycles in New York, 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.… Expand

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 77 min

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Alissa Wilkinson

Sep 6, 2024

By the end, Holding Back the Tide feels like both an elegy and a prophecy, looking toward both past and future to imagine what kind of possibilities oysters represent. Read full review

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