Video, 7 minutes, 2018, San Francisco, CA

By Guta Galli and Roc Morin

Music By Ingram Marshall

Flotsam

/ˈflätsəm/

NOUN 1. The wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on or washed up by the sea. 2. People or things that have been rejected or discarded as worthless. Synonyms: wreckage, lost cargo, floating remains. Rubbish, debris, detritus, waste, waste matter, discarded matter, dross, refuse, remains, scrap, lumber, odds and ends.

This piece is about depression: the hollow, terrifying numbness that can shape someone’s existence and bring utter loneliness and the sense of death-in-life as the only tangible reality.