
The Land & The Silence draws connections between otherwise unrelated places sharing the name “Glacier Bay”across Turtle Island. The film’s interest is rooted in the shared title between Sit' Eeti Gheeyi, aka Glacier Bay National Park which occupies Huna/Tinglit territory in South East Alaska, and the waterworks brand Glacier Bay owned by Home Depot. Stemming from the premise that the title of a melting national park on stollen land is attributed to several domesticized sources from which water flows and is subsequently wasted, he work explores refractions from this relationship between stollen indigenous land, the renaming of these territories, and how the same systems of erasure dictate how water is used and abused as a resource in these spaces and in contemporary society at large. Gathering documentary material and interviews from “Glacier Bays” throughout the United States, the film maps various perceptions of landscape as an expedient, both historically and amidst our current era of unprecedented and human-driven climate change.

The Land & The Silence draws connections between otherwise unrelated places sharing the name “Glacier Bay”across Turtle Island. The film’s interest is rooted in the shared title between Sit' Eeti Gheeyi, aka Glacier Bay National Park which occupies Huna/Tinglit territory in South East Alaska, and the waterworks brand Glacier Bay owned by Home Depot. Stemming from the premise that the title of a melting national park on stollen land is attributed to several domesticized sources from which water flows and is subsequently wasted, he work explores refractions from this relationship between stollen indigenous land, the renaming of these territories, and how the same systems of erasure dictate how water is used and abused as a resource in these spaces and in contemporary society at large. Gathering documentary material and interviews from “Glacier Bays” throughout the United States, the film maps various perceptions of landscape as an expedient, both historically and amidst our current era of unprecedented and human-driven climate change.