Short Documentary · 2024

Voices
of Water

Vandets Stemmer · Denmark
Poetic dance documentary
Director · Cinematographer · Editor

A poetic dance documentary that emerged from an artistic research project titled Hydro Communication, which explored the hidden language of water: how it transfers meaning across species, and how humans emotionally and physically experience aquatic environments.

Filmed in rural Denmark, where stories of sacred water streams are still passed down through generations, the project brought us into dialogue with local artists, poets, musicians, and knowledge keepers. Through these encounters, we explored personal relationships with bodies of water and uncovered a collective sense of environmental grief: a quiet awareness of ecological collapse carried through the currents, tides, and stories of place.

Through the dancer's body, the film embodies the subtle communication of water: its grief, memory, movement, and beauty. Blending somatic performance, community voices, and layered soundscapes, Voices of Water invites reflection on interconnection, loss, and the possibility of collective healing.

Earthwise Residency · Maltfabrikken Ebeltoft · Performing Arts Platform, DK
Funding: Statens Kunstfond · Earthwise Residency · Secret Hotel
Director, Cinematographer, Editor: Maria Sol · Dance: Janina Taurinen · Composer: Emilie Lykkegaard (from Contamination Site) · Poetry: Birgitte Fjeldsøe Beck · Grip: Patrik Rizvan · Interviewees: Birgitte Fjeldsøe Beck, Trine Rytter Andersen, Anika Spindelmann, Emilie Lykkegaard, Christine Fentz · Project coordinator: Natasja Lundehøj Hedegaard