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CONCRETE TURNED TO SAND

By Jessica JOHNSON, Ryan ERMACORA

Second film - Post-Production 2025

Concrete Turned to Sand traces the environment of oyster farming in BC through temporal, ecological and scientific modes of perception.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Second film, Environmental, Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH-CANADA
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 75 mn
- Director(s)
- Jessica JOHNSON, Ryan ERMACORA
- Producer(s)
- Jessica JOHNSON (SLAG PILE FILMS LTD.), Ryan ERMACORA (SLAG PILE FILMS LTD.)
- Synopsis
- Concrete Turned to Sand traces the present realities of oyster farming on Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada, which is experiencing the negative effects of human driven climate change through ocean warming and acidification. Working with a small group of oyster farmers, the film interweaves the depiction of labour with scientific research on the contemporary climate crisis, translating anthropocenic concepts into visual and auditory representations. Through temporal, geographic and ecological modes of perception, the film represents various scales of the biosphere, considering the adaptations and transformations of landscapes as well as the intertwined livelihoods within them.