Amazing Video

Directed by Ben Zeitlin and produced by the folks over at Court 13, the film Glory at Sea is a fable of such exorbitantly epic proportions that it could only be described as Grandiose. This extremely emotional gesture is crammed into a 25 minute running time.

This short film is about a man who comes back alive, in a post Katrina world, to lead a bunch of lost souls back to sea to meet their destiny.

Because the film is what it is (possibly an recollection of the ancient Greek myth of the ferry crossing the river styx to get to the land of the dead) racing at breakneck speeds to catch-up with modern times, I find this to be a very powerful piece indeed...Because this isn’t your traditional narrative, at times it's hard to follow, but at all the other times the film isn’t just appropriate but pretty much necessary.


Fun Fact: The Glory at Sea theme song composed by Benh Zeitlin and Dan Romer was used as the theme for the final days of Barack Obama's US presidential campaign.