This Is (Not) Your Ocean

This Is (Not) Your Ocean

2024 · 14 min · Documentary, Drama, Romance

Queer bodies attract, fall in love, falter, perish. Are our bodies more vulnerable, and therefore our loves, too? A poetic video letter; an intimate experiment of image and sound, of heart, head and hormones; and a loving ode to those who have passed on before memories together could be made.

Directed by Jordi Wijnalda · Written by Jordi Wijnalda

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