IN THE WATER-FILLED MINE PIT
Poetry film 5’41”
premiered at the Nordic Center (Duluth, MN) Nov 2022
(In the Water-Filled Mine Pit can be found on Bandcamp)
Based on poetry by Sheila Packa, IN THE WATER-FILLED MINE PIT explores the landscape of pit lakes, huge cavities created by extractive mining that have filled with spring and rain water.
Poetry and reading / Sheila Packa
Composition, field recording, viola, imagery / Sara Pajunen
Video from LaRue Pit (Nashwalk, MN), Stephens Mine (Aurora, MN), CN Docks (Duluth, MN)
Mixed by Robert Soma-Lewis at Ambient Works