Drowned Lands Part 2: I Am Here
2015 · 5m · USA
Directed by Will Schluter
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, tender
Part two: she settles into the cabin's daily rhythm — rowing the lake, sawing, watching light move across window sills — and the title becomes a private incantation rather than a statement. The mice arrive, and so does the first hint that being here is harder than getting here.
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Most filmmakers would cut the chore montage. Schluter makes it the whole episode, and the title — I Am Here — stops sounding like a logline and starts sounding like something you'd whisper to yourself at 3 a.m. to make sure it's true.
A whole episode of rowing, sawing, rodent surveillance — Schluter dares to make the daily rhythm load-bearing, like Akerman with a borrowed DSLR. Patient in a way I respect.
A five-minute episode built around domestic chores and rodent surveillance, treated as drama — the trust in pure observation is the whole craft. Either meditative or sleepy depending on the cut.