Feet in Water, Head on Fire
Terra Long · 2023 · 93 min
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- Date
- Monday, October 5, 2026
- Time
- 8:00 PM
- Neighborhood
- Historic Filipinotown
- Access
- Public
- Price
- $15
Presentation
How you’ll see it.
- Format
- 16mm, DCP
Live introduction
Mezzanine: Terra Long's Feet in Water, Head on Fire
Feet in Water, Head on Fire at 2220 Arts + Archives includes this in-person presentation.
Date palms imported and cultivated decades ago flourish in the Coachella Valley in Southern California. A cacophony of voices from across generations reflect on the shifting landscape of the region; some remember the first few acres that were planted, while others enjoy the luxuries of new golf courses. Feet in Water, Head on Fire is a sensorially vibrant 16mm experience that takes us on a journey of past, present, and future. Director Terra Long hand-processed the footage utilizing leftover dates and native plants intertwining the environment into the fabric of the film. Through complex and nuanced scenes, non-sync interviews blossom into a wonderfully gentle but memorable portrait of a community in flux.
- Director
- Terra Long
- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 93 minutes
- Genres
- Documentary
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