Back Water

Back Water

A film about the changing nature of wilderness

2015 · 65 min · Documentary

In the middle of New Jersey exists a strange landscape of wetlands and wildlife migrations, garbage dumps and the ruins of industry, toxic waste sites and a river that tells the story of a civilization's new frontier. That is what seven young people have chosen to paddle through for 10 days, in canoes - A singular expedition, as romantic as it is political.

Directed by Jon Cohrs

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