Okeanos (2008)

Filmed in Baja California where the desert sun meets the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf A rusting shipwreck on the rocks outside of Cabo San Lucas in 1972 provides a central and poignant metaphor for a macropsychedelic and microexpressionistic exploration of tropical colors and surfy forms At the time many innovative and experimental incamera techniques were used to create a dazzling and mysterious vocabulary of painters eye multiplane cinema Extensive abstract expressionist hand painting can also be seen in this final version Meanwhile the shipwreck Inari Maru has disintegrated and disappeared back into the sea