2022 Films and More Performances
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"Can She Bait a Line?" - an illustrated talk with historian and poet Katrina Porteous who has documented by early photos and oral histories the lives of fishermen and women on the English Northumberland coast. Recorded February 10, 2022, part of a year-long program at the New England Fishing Heritage Center to explore the role of women in commercial fisheries. (1hr 20m)
"Mudwalkers" -a summer set netting in Nushagak Bay. Fisherman and filmmaker Max Frew invites you to join Sarah Olson's crew as they tackle another sockeye season in Bristol Bay. (33m)
"The Watermen: A Poem" - a short film by Bailey Galvin-Scott (4m)
Capt. Fred Pomeroy has been catching swimming blue crabs for sale on Chesapeake Bay since he was in high school in the mid sixties. Recently, he told his son that he thinks he's going to figure it out soon... Trotlining, a type of hookless longlining where the crabs have to be eased off the bottom in order to dip them individually with a net, is the only legal way to commercially catch hard crabs in the Maryland Rivers that flow into the Bay. The more efficient wire crab pots are confined to the open waters of the Bay. So this traditional gear type is actually a conservation measure. However, that doesn't stop many Chesapeake watermen from trying to catch as many as they can. In this intimate, but intense and competitive fishery, the doubler, or mated pair of crabs, is considered the ultimate prize. In recent years, most Bay trotliners have gone to a large mechanized "dipper" basket but Pomeroy still pursues his "jimmies" the old time way, with an ash-handled dip net. Viewers interested in exploring all the gear types used in the blue crab fishery should look up William Warner's classic "Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay" which won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.
Capt. Fred Pomeroy has been catching swimming blue crabs for sale on Chesapeake Bay since he was in high school in the mid sixties. Recently, he told his son that he thinks he's going to figure it out soon... Trotlining, a type of hookless longlining where the crabs have to be eased off the bottom in order to dip them individually with a net, is the only legal way to commercially catch hard crabs in the Maryland Rivers that flow into the Bay. The more efficient wire crab pots are confined to the open waters of the Bay. So this traditional gear type is actually a conservation measure. However, that doesn't stop many Chesapeake watermen from trying to catch as many as they can. In this intimate, but intense and competitive fishery, the doubler, or mated pair of crabs, is considered the ultimate prize. In recent years, most Bay trotliners have gone to a large mechanized "dipper" basket but Pomeroy still pursues his "jimmies" the old time way, with an ash-handled dip net. Viewers interested in exploring all the gear types used in the blue crab fishery should look up William Warner's classic "Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay" which won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.
"The Wind is so often a Messenger" - by Moe Bowstern with Saskia Madlener. (3m)
This sneak preview and rough cut is one of four vignettes that will eventually become a short film about Oregon's windy coastline called "The Wind Moves Us." The film will feature four different users of the wind of Oregon's coast: a fisherpoet, a paraglider, an oceanographer and an engineer turned offshore wind policy advocate. Stay tuned. Video produced by Oregon State Productions. Sponsored by the Marine Studies Initiative.
This sneak preview and rough cut is one of four vignettes that will eventually become a short film about Oregon's windy coastline called "The Wind Moves Us." The film will feature four different users of the wind of Oregon's coast: a fisherpoet, a paraglider, an oceanographer and an engineer turned offshore wind policy advocate. Stay tuned. Video produced by Oregon State Productions. Sponsored by the Marine Studies Initiative.
"Fisherpoets in the Stream" - a poem and video compilation by Fred Bailey in tribute to the FisherPoets Gathering. (7m)
"Setnet: An Alaskan Fishing Story" - selected text and songs from an original play by Naphtali Fields-Forbes following a crew of commercial Alaskan setnetters through the hardest season of their lives. With Susannah Brister and Aaron Fields-Forbes. (6m)
