Sink, Float, Swallow, Spit invites the viewer into a quality of noticing symbolism and kinetics rather than spoken language and is not beholden to a clear cause and effect logic. Rather, the film features a montage of shots and scenes inspiring free association and wandering thoughts. The film speaks to the viewer on the level of the body. And there, a liminal space opens, where notions of wild and tame blur. The landscape becomes its own alluring character, at times propelling the performers into action or rest and at times they recede like the tide into to the dry creek-bed, urban river or air. The resulting imagery and movement sequences become spacious and hypnotic.
Danger and vigilance, sensuality and love, a dark spotted redfish, the flash of a black grackle in flight, a lone figure standing, resting and traversing across rocks, the slow climb down a dilapidated staircase of a decaying building, this is the language of the film. It is a language of natural and urban landscapes and the humans that inhabit them. Rhythmically oriented by currents of stillness and activation, there is a metered return to the notion of intimacy.

Director: Lauren Tietz
Cinematography: Gideon deVilliers (additional camera support-Brandon Gonzalez)
Original sound score: Travis Weller
Field recordings: Brent Fariss
Starring: Chelsea Hunter & Lauren Tietz
Additional Appearances: Toni Bravo, Danielle Casey, Jessica Holmes, Christine Wong