Leyla Stevens

Our Sea is Always Hungry, 2018

Single channel video, stereo sound
13:16 minutes
Director/Writer/Editor: Leyla Stevens
Camera: Wayan Martino, Leyla Stevens
Performer: Jacko Wahyu Rizki
Voice Narrator: Cok Sawitri
Voice Narrator: Savitri Sastrawan
Translation: Savitri Sastrawan
Costume Assistant: Iin Valentine
Drone Operator: De Oka
Sound Mastering: Tim Bruniges

Our Sea is Always Hungry (2018) is a single-channel video work that continues Leyla Stevens’ exploration of the space between documentary and fiction. Focusing on traces of Indonesia's 1965—66 anti-communist killings, the film explores how 1965 today is both remembered and forgotten in Bali. Connecting several historical trajectories around political violence, tourism, the Wallace Line, Gunung Agung, and spirits who inhabit the natural world, the film considers alternative archives that are embedded within the landscape.