The result of a series of cameraless collaborations between the filmmaker the Atlantic Ocean and a crab trap For three days in January and three days in October of 1997 and again for a day in August of 1998 lengths of unexposed undeveloped film were soaked in a crab cage on a South Carolina beach Both the sound and image are the result of the ensuing oceanic inscriptions written directly into the emulsion of the film as it was buffeted by the salt water sand rocks and shells