
Until The Tide Creeps In
Dir. Jessi Gutch
17 mins
Funded by BFI Doc Society Made of Truth
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Aesthetica, British Shorts Berlin
Winner of Best Documentary and Best of the Festival, Aesthetica, 2021
Canvey Island lies just outside London and suffered the worst natural disaster in modern British history - the 'Big Flood of 1953'.
Trapped behind a crumbling sea wall and now dangerously close to massive concentrations of hazardous fossil fuel storage, Jan, Malcolm and George fear another deadly disaster will happen to their home on the East England coast.
Their fears of a repeat of 1953 are brought to life in this lyrical dystopian film, that imagines a future not dissimilar to real archive of the past.
On Canvey Island, trauma is a disorder of time.
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Directed by Jessi Gutch
Produced by Alice Hughes
Cinematography by Ruben Woodin Deschamps
Edited by Mdhamiri Nkemi
Original Music by Jo Patterson
Starring Bary Ward, featuring Malcolm, Joan and John





