River

The documentary tells the relationship between people and rivers as a journey spanning six continents. Through history rivers have shaped the land and the routes people took, and they have run through cultures and dreams. The film uses what today’s equipment allows, satellite imaging among it, and shows rivers at scales never seen before. There are few sentences in the account; the weight is carried by image and music. It holds the wildness of rivers and their fragility at the same time. How much of the world’s rivers have by now been altered by dams, canals and embankments stands inside the account as well. Willem Dafoe narrated the seventy five minute documentary by Joseph Nizeti and Jennifer Peedom, completed in 2021.