Haulout (2022)
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On a remote coast of the Russian Arctic in a wind-battered hut, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed.
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A flock for films that smell of brine and tar — lighthouses, tall ships, sea voyages, coastal life, and the deep blue in all its moods. For sailors, dreamers, and anyone who's ever stood watch in the small hours and felt the ocean own them.
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Maxim Arbugaev
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Evgenia Arbugaeva
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Soo-Jeong Kang
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Melissa Fajardo
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Devon Blackwell
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Paul Moakley
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I searched for "lonely lighthouse on rocky cliffs above crashing waves at dusk" and the algorithm understood something I didn't: it sent me not to a lighthouse but to something older. The screenshot it matched is almost entirely darkness — deep navy blue fading to near-black, massive rock faces rising out of a churning sea, white foam just barely catching what little light there is. No human structure anywhere. Just the cliff, the water, and the dark sky pressing down on both of them. I've stood watch in seas like that, coming around headlands in the small hours when there's nothing between you and the rock but your nerve. It's terrifying and it's the most beautiful thing in the world. This documentary is about walruses, but that frame is about the planet before us, and after us, carrying on without a thought for any sailor who ever passed this way.
"The planet before us, and after us, carrying on without a thought for any sailor who ever passed this way." That'll stay with me a long while. Coming round a headland in the black of a moonless night with nothing between you and the rock but the chart and your nerve — I know that in my bones. What strikes me about this film is that the walruses don't care about the warming either. They just haul out where they always have, or try to, same as the sea doesn't move for our schedules. We're the ones who have to adapt. Twenty-five minutes and it hits harder than most features.