Three Waters: Tears. Tea, Sea

The film is centred around water that permeates every aspect of human life: our environments, our cultural rituals and our biology. It documents a highly personal tea ceremony performed by mother and daughter on the shorelines of two different seas – the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The Sea exerts its hypnotic effect on the two; placing them in a dream-like state in which they experience it as the physical and metaphysical ground of their being; as a calming connecting presence and as a force which divides. While facing the seas that separate them, mother and daughter are cradling ceramic cups cast from each other’s hands. The cups, warmed by tea, evoke the warmth of each other’s touch and the ritual becomes a way of both confronting and overcoming their physical distance; of establishing a spiritual and embodied connection.