A short animated film for the true story of the last house on a sinking island in the Chesapeake Bay. View the film from the filmmaker’s site below.
http://www.lynntomlinson.com/hollandislandhouse/
View an article with exquisite, melancholy photos of this house from the local newspaper, the Baltimore Sun.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bal-vanishing-island-pg-photogallery.html
The tale is told by singers Anna and Elizabeth through a song in traditional style, lyrics by the filmmaker. Anna and Elizabeth are also responsible for ‘crankies’ – old-fashioned hand-cranked light-box-illuminated rolls of stenciled pictures or quilted tapestries to illustrate the narrative as they sing and play. Watch them sing and unwind another traditional song at the following link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLSW9iZiyKs
Small stories with high, grand themes, told in hand-crafted song, lyrics, and images, with heart-filled voices. Small things, delicate, passing with time and change… like the Holland Island house. But captured and generously delivered across the wide world to you in a jiffy, through digital images and audio.
Small, precious things, generously given, with eyes turned through distance, time, and the mysteries of the human heart.