Single Channel Video. 6:36 minutes. 2022.

Where the ocean meets the sand, the encounter between two dancers echoes the endless rhythm of waves across the tidepools. Reminding us that all life is a circle, that when your smiling eyes meet the eyes of another they will smile back, and that is the center point. This is visually echoed in the visual mirror created by looking upwards to the water’s surface, the tumbling of seaweed in the water, the tumbling sequences and mirroring of the dancer’s movements with one another, and in the spirals in the seashells carried on the hermit crab’s backs.

Produced & Directed by Jessica Gomula-Kruzic
Performances by Nicole Zvarik & Brandon Guerra
Choreography by Nicole Zvarik & Brandon Guerra
Music by Sean Clute

• 2025: Complex Ecologies. University Art Gallery, CSU Stanislaus. Turlock, CA
• 2023: FLOW Festival. Plantation, FL. Award Winner.
• 2023: International Migration & Environmental Film Festival. Brandon, Canada.
• 2023: Nature Without Borders International Film Festival. WRPN Entertainment Network. Award Winner.
• 2023: Bettiah International Film Festival, Bettiah, Bihar.  Award Winner.
• 2023: WRPN Women’s International Film Festival. Rehoboth Beach, DE. Award Winner.
• 2023: Mannheim Arts and Film Festival. Mannheim, Germany.
• 2022: Delight of Hidden Spaces. Faculty Development Center, Stanislaus State. Turlock, CA.
• 2022: Life Screenings International Short Film Festival. Clermont, FL.
• 2022: Neum Underwater Film Festival. Neum, Herzegovina. Honorable Mention.