Halocline

Born from a month-long interdisciplinary residency between a filmmaker, choreographer, performers, and a costume/body paint artist.

This cinematic poem stars Gotland’s coastal dwellers in an embodied meditation on humanity’s fluid relationship with endangered waters. At Baltic’s halocline—where salt and fresh waters tense against merging—the bodies of silent inhabitants of the sea reflect on the ideas of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience. A document of embodied geography, where celluloid grain and seawater alike preserve what’s disappearing: a sensory manifesto for our time.

Pablo Koury (Director) Rio-born, globally-rooted filmmaker based in NYC since 2019, Koury’s work lives in the liminal space where cinema, performance, and environmental consciousness collide. A graduate of Brazil’s legendary Darcy Ribeiro Film School (Projeto de Apoio Cultural) – whose faculty included seminal Brazilian auteurs – he began as a fashion photographer before evolving toward experimental filmmaking as embodied research.

His recent collaborations with movement artists span Portugal, Sweden, Iceland, and NYC (including recent PAC-supported work), investigating how bodies metabolize place.