SAME WATER (2025)

 

Same Water is a lyrical nonfiction film that weaves memory and archival footage to examine Black leisure, freedom, and exclusion at Silver Springs State Park in Ocala, Florida. Prompted by the filmmaker’s discovery of family home videos from a vacation with their grandparents in the early 1990s, the film situates that trip within a landscape shaped by Jim Crow segregation, which had been inaccessible to her grandparents a generation earlier. Through home movies, archival materials, and contemporary interviews, it reflects on the pursuit of rest in spaces shaped by racial exclusion, foregrounding Paradise Park, a segregated site that preserved Silver Springs as a whites-only destination.

Total Run Time: 21 minutes

16mm, 8mm, Analog Video, Color and B&W, Sound

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