In the Wake of a Second Cook

in the wake of a second cook explores the uncanny symmetry between our unconscious and the natural world. Woven from wildly disparate elements, this ecological narrative seamlessly ties nature, documentary, and fiction into a new cinematic experience. As a tanker is capsizing in a storm, the second cook on board receives a voice mail from his wife that he is father to a baby girl. The cook retreats to a small storage closet where there is approximately 60 minutes of air remaining. Fifty–eight miles from shore in the confines of this closet he experiences impossibly authentic hallucinations of his baby girl's birth, growth, and his own funeral and burial. As the air runs out, he becomes a mid-wife to the memories he will never experience. What begins as documentary ends as fiction. What began as fiction becomes a study of nature. (Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival)