Selected for Utah Dance Film Festival, Queer Spectra Arts Festival, and Equinox Mountain Film Festival 2025.
A creature of grief emerges from the phragmites – their changing form holding hundreds of years of death and loss. An eared grebe wanders the d(r)ying mudflats – tracing the pattern of salt the only way they know how, wondering how much of a home will be left in their lifetime. A body communes with the lake – worshiping, offering, surrendering.
Executive Direction and Choreography: Kara Komarnitsky
Videography and Editing: Veronica Harvey
Performance: Severin Sargent-Catterton
Poetry: milo and the lake words collective
Costume Design: Nathaniel Woolley
Music: Michael Wall
Sound Engineer: Steph Kasallis
Production Support: Mica Vainwright, Sophia Cutrubus, and Kitty
Co-produced by Artists Climate Collective with support from the Salt Lake City Arts Council
Salt Lake City Premiere – August 17 at Atelier Mill presented by 801 Salon and Yardworks Presents
The process of making this film taught me that magic happens in the coming together, that is what the art is for. The skills that I lack are not weaknesses, but opportunities to seek relationship. We are not meant to imagine or create a new world alone. Thank you to all who brought their energy, awareness, and attention to this work and who continue to seek right relationship with Great Salt Lake.
Direct support for Great Salt Lake via Wuda Ogwa project by the Northwestern Band of Shoshone here.
Kara Komarnitsky 