Holding Back the Tide Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Holding Back the Tide from filmmaker Emile Packer is an impressionistic hybrid documentary that traces the oyster through its many life cycles in New York City, once the world’s oyster capital.
Now their specter haunts the city through queer characters embodying ancient myth, discovering the overlooked history and biology of the bivalve that built the city.
As environmentalists restore them to the harbor, we look to the oyster as a queer icon, entangled with nature, with much to teach about our continued survival.
Holding Back the Tide is directed by the experimental filmmaker Emily Packer.