Water Wrackets

Name: Water Wrackets
Genre: Short
Released: 1990-05-25
Duration: 12 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Colin Cantlie

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Hypnotic photography of swirling rivers and misty ponds and droning music (not Michael Nyman for a change) form the backdrop to a documentary-style narration about the history of a fictional... Read allHypnotic photography of swirling rivers and misty ponds and droning music (not Michael Nyman for a change) form the backdrop to a documentary-style narration about the history of a fictional tribe in the distant past (or is it the far future?).Hypnotic photography of swirling rivers and misty ponds and droning music (not Michael Nyman for a change) form the backdrop to a documentary-style narration about the history of a fictional tribe in the distant past (or is it the far future?).

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Colin Cantlie

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Director
- Peter Greenaway
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- Peter Greenaway
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10/10

An aquatic idyllic fantasy

The film begins with the idyllic images of running water in streams, then is interrupted by claps of thunder, and the image of a dead duckling in a stream. A narrator is telling us about a military manoeuvre around the year 12478. A character named Agateer gives orders to dam a stream in nine places to create nine lakes, although only five were made.

The first lake is called the Winter Lake. Some of the other lakes are joined by streams. The fifth lake is called the Palace Lake. The water in this lake was deliberately stained black, from the juice of the plant known as Agateer's Nightshade, which grew in the forest of Tersh. The Palace Lake was the deepest and widest of the lakes.