At Low Tide

Original title At Low Tide

Every day, diggers across coastal Maine set out at low tide to dig (with the simplest of tools) for clams on the wide, mud flats that stretch far into the bay. This is backbreaking labour. However, unusual beauty emanates from the ebb and flow of the tide, the shifts of light and wind, the skill and rhythm of digging, and the sound and texture of the deep, viscous mud. At Low Tide evokes the sensory richness and poetic nature of clamming.

Author/s Grimshaw, Anna

Anna Grimshaw is the author of The Ethnographer’s Eye and co-author of Observational Cinema. For the last 5 years, she has been making films in Machiasport, a small fishing town in downeast Maine. In 2013 she completed a four-part film work, Mr Coperthwaite: a life in the Maine Woods distributed by Berkeley Media and a companion piece, A Chair: in six parts. She teaches at Emory University.

Research Grimshaw
Photography Grimshaw
Sound Grimshaw
Editing Grimshaw