Sailing a Sinking Sea

Sailing a Sinking Sea is a feature-length experimental documentary exploring the culture of the Moken people of Burma and Thailand. The Moken are seafaring people and one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in Asia. Wholly reliant upon the sea, their entire belief system, education, and economic and physical development revolve around water. Sailing a Sinking Sea illuminates the Moken lifestyle through recorded traditional music, folklore and conversations with the Moken people. Through intimate and dynamic cinematography and audio recordings, Sailing a Sinking Sea weaves a visual and aural tapestry of Moken mythologies and present-day practices.

• Olivia WyattDirector · Producer · Editor · Writer
• Will OldhamExecutive Producer
• Kevin HaydenDirector of Photography
• Tia DunnEditor
• Arshia HaqEditor
• Eileen KennedyEditor

Release date

March 14, 2015

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 4m

Genres

Documentary

• 

  Prisoners of War

  1995

• Lo specchio di Diana

  1996

• 

  And... We've Got Sabor

  1967

• 

  I'm Going to Santiago

  1964

• 

  Fannie's Film

  1981

• 

  One Thousand Days in Saigon

  2012

• 

  Patron

  2013

• 

  The Phantom of the Operator

  2004

• 

  Profilers: Gaze Into the Abyss

  2014

• 

  School of Babel

  2014

• 

  The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

  2017

• 

  The Cloud Forest

  2017