Jetty

Programmers notes: For all you experiential documentary heads (and Animal Collective fans), Jetty is an immersive revelation. Bolstered by brilliantly intertwined sound design and score, Sam Fleischner’s patient lens documents the planners and the machines behind a massive shore-infrastructure project on the Rockaway peninsula. Its view of construction and demolition equipment as behemoths with one foot in our world and one foot almost in science-fiction recalls the underseen commercial-ship documentary masterpiece Dead Slow Ahead. However, this isn’t a film of other worlds, but rather a sensory-rich record of human efforts to subdue earthly elements, at least temporarily; human engineering and mechanical tools pushing back against the inexorable tide, one breakwater at a time. 

— Eric Allen Hatch

Director Sam Fleischner and Deakin and Geologist of Animal Collective expected for a post-film Q+A.