Name: How To Make Friends In The Water (When Both The Water And The Friends Can Drown You)
Start: 2024-06-01T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-06-01T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Pirbadet

How To Make Friends In The Water (When Both The Water And The Friends Can Drown You)

A Semi-Educational Tragi-Comic Film

+ Series Of Semi-Fun Inter-Activities

Free at Pirbadet (top floor pool by cafe)

19:45 Doors open

20:00 Screening

20:30 Activities (wet or dry)

Bring your preferably old timey swimsuits if you want to get in the water for one of the activities. Rest of the activities are on dry land.

Full Synopsis:

“How To Make Friends In The Water (When Both The Water and The People Can Drown You)" involves a series of interactive water/beach-based installations and a fun-ish absurdist tragi-comic semi-educational video on how to survive a future where there is only an ocean and no land. Except of course the video is not about learning to swim so much as the mental and environmental blocks that keep us from connecting and thriving "in the water" especially if you weren’t taught to “swim” when young. Both the installations and the short film will ask audiences to figuratively and literally jump in and question their own approach to living as well as the hierarchies of connection which often puts platonic connections far below romantic and familial ones.

The video which is inspired by 1940s educational films from the U.S. will follow the journey of Susie as she tries to learn about both the people and the water that surrounds her. Interactive elements include a beach proposal station where visitors pop the question “Will You Be My Friend?” then they can have a consultation with The Friendship Lawyer with whom they can draw up a friendship contract and finally they can make their way to the “Sands of Time: Sharing is Caring Reflection Hour” where they can contemplate how much time they have for this whole friendship thing anyway.

Beyond the games and playful vintage veneer this project is at it core about the repercussions of not being properly socialized in a safe loving environment the maladaptive coping mechanisms we learn along the way and the difficulties of having to teach yourself skills as an adult that you were supposed to learn as a child.