An Ocean Between Us

An Ocean Between Us expresses the desire for a relationship that is made up of transitions, successive time shifts, and coordinated changes without an essential unity. This project tells a story about a couple that roam inside a boat moored in a slip along the dock by the port of Lisbon, waiting for the ‘last call’ to departure to Luanda. In the video the audio track is composed of the sounds of boat engines and waves from the ocean that brought this couple together, and now take them apart. They walk close to each other, but are spiritually far apart. Even if they share the same physical space they never speak to each other; they live in a state of transit and wonder. The individual here is recognized as a conjunction of inner expressions that produce history, subjectivity and meaning. An Ocean Between Us is about the globalization paradoxes such as the impossibility of the meeting between cultures and the absurdities of living in diaspora.