09/10/2026
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ANALOGICA SELECTION 16 / PR 2
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In the Maritime Frequencies
by Greta M Snider
16mm / 2025 / United States / 15’
Greta Snider’s 2025 film In the Maritime Frequencies approaches climate change from a hyper-localized perspective, focusing on a stretch of San Francisco shoreline. Shot on celluloid, it was hand-processed using bay water, local fennel, and detergent runoff from the area.
The site, a spit of land on the city’s southeastern shore, embodies past, present, and future. This former landfill still surfaces Navy yard relics and tombstone fragments from the past.
Today it’s one of the city’s last undeveloped public spaces. And fennel, mallow, and poppies are already spreading across the ground, a glimpse of what’s next.
The film examines emotional representations of climate change, drawing on Susan Sontag’s “The Imagination of Disaster” (1965), Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993), and Kimberly Nicholas’s Under the Sky We Make (2022), each linking climate disaster to the human psyche.
Greta Snider utilizes a combination of original and archival material to create nonfiction art cinema. Snider’s films, stereoscopic performances, and installations use the materiality of motion pictures to reshape themes of memory, loss, and personal histories in a more intimate, affective experience. Snider teaches experimental filmmaking at San Francisco State University, where she is faculty advisor to The Archive Project.
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ANALOGICA 16
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11 > 15 NOV BZ
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