Sea Grapes

A modern representation of the ancient struggle between obsession and responsibility based on the poem "Sea Grapes" by Nobel prize winner Derek Walcott.

Starring

Mark Colson

Dir Keenan Wetzel
DP Jake Bianco

"That sail which leans on light,
tired of islands,
a schooner beating up the Caribbean

for home, could be Odysseus,
home-bound on the Aegean;
that father and husband's

longing, under gnarled sour grapes, is
like the adulterer hearing Nausicaa's name
in every gull's outcry.

This brings nobody peace. The ancient war
between obsession and responsibility
will never finish and has been the same

for the sea-wanderer or the one on shore
now wriggling on his sandals to walk home,
since Troy sighed its last flame,

and the blind giant's boulder heaved the trough
from whose groundswell the great hexameters come
to the conclusions of exhausted surf.

The classics can console. But not enough"

Lenes by
LensWorks Rentals

Special Thanks

Ronny Tibbs

Cast: Keenan Wetzel, Jake Bianco and Musicbed

Tags: Alexa, Arri, Musicbed, Alexa Mini, Keenan Wetzel, 35mm film, Grain and annamorphic