IN THE WATER-FILLED MINE PIT
Poetry film 5’41”
premiered at the Nordic Center (Duluth, MN) Nov 2022
(In the Water-Filled Mine Pit can be found on Bandcamp)
full work here
Based on poetry by Sheila Packa that was inspired by my initial Mine Songs experimentation residency at Zeitgeist in Duluth, MN, IN THE WATER-FILLED MINE PIT explores the landscape of pit lakes, huge cavities created by extractive mining that have filled with spring and rain water.
Poetry and reading / Sheila Packa
Composition, field recording, viola, imagery / Sara Pajunen
Video from LaRue Pit (Nashwalk, MN), Stephens Mine (Aurora, MN), CN Docks (Duluth, MN)
Mixed by Robert Soma-Lewis at Ambient Works
