Zach Wilson--Northfork

This film was one which employed scenery and filming technique to display the eccentricity and isolation of Northfork. The town and its remaining inhabitants are stragglers, they are the last of their kind, and are slated for destruction. The wide open spaces of the scenery display this desolation and isolation quite well, and the film relied upon scenery and imagery in large part to carry the plot and themes of the film. The lack of a continuous dialogue or plot adds to the effect of the film being somewhat dreamlike or trancelike. Logic and traditional constructs of dialogue, plot, progression, development of characters largely flies out the window. The film presents the town of Northfork as it is and was, and represents the stoppage of time. After Northfork is submerged forever, it no longer lives, and it represents a death. The town itself has a lifespan, similar to that of a human's, it has a birth, it has an infancy, an adolescence, a maturity, and finally a death. The town of Northfork is almost the tragic hero of the film, which forms a connection with the audience, then tragically meets its demise.