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Amanda Morgan, soundtrack by Jeff Baker,
The Zooplankton's Dance: just what is it that makes seismic blasting so appealing in today's ocean homes?, 2023, HD video animation, sound, 8:00.
The Zooplankton's Dance splices together titles from Hamon and Painlevé's marine science films and collage works by Hamilton and Rosler on 'home' in response to the ongoing air gun assault on global marine habitats caused by seismic testing from fossil fuel schemes in the Australian ocean. In the film, affectively moving troubles have prompted hybrid sea animals to join against warming oceans over maps of Australian testing sites. Drawing on imagined sea animal calls, underwater explosions, and Cousteau's marine biology documentary The Silent World, Morgan and Baker's 24 frames-per-second and 6 x 4 grid format is a one-second temporal marker for our short time to act. The animated film (Morgan) with slide guitar (Baker) targets UN 2024 Goal 14, 'Life Below Water.'