Within the Waves
Documentary Short
DIRECTOR
CINEMATOGRAPHER
SOUND
CLIENT
YEAR
Hollis Wong-Wear
Jama Abdirahman
Adam Mccollom
ArtsFund
2025
Overview
Withing the Waves is a lyrical exploration of the quiet, yet unshakable presence of art during times of hardship, unrest, and oppression. Through an atmospheric blend of poetry, sound, and visual storytelling, it seeks to evoke rather than explain, to gesture toward the ways in which creative expression endures when the world grows heavy and uncertain. It is a meditation on resilience, memory, and the often-invisible threads of beauty and resistance that run through even the darkest chapters of our shared experience. Rather than presenting clear answers, this project creates space for feeling, for questioning, and for bearing witness to the quiet power of making something when there seems to be nothing left.
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