Crashing Waves

While images produced for Hollywood appear slick and controlled a stunt performers testimony in Crashing Waves reveals otherwise as they parse out all of the elements that go into a car crashing off a cliff and diving into the water for a TV show Though the image produced and edited creates a splitsecond moment of violence for the viewers pleasure Crashing Waves uncovers the months of labor training and danger that the stunt involved contingent on capitalist patriarchal hierarchies in the film industry The film meditates on the stakes of the real in the dominant cultures production of images and emphasizes the importance of the ethics of care