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The title signifies the Native American name for Assateague Island, a national seashore and natural landmark located off the coast of Maryland. A passive bay and pristine beach compose the barriers of this subtle yet stunning passage. Distractions amongst the dunes awaken development of the ecological and departure of the artificial. The film culminates in close proximity to a small band of feral horses that share a common territory and domesticated ancestry.

Lorenzo Gattorna is a filmmaker and programmer originally from New York now residing in Baltimore. He received a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in 2007. His short films have screened in exhibitions associated with ARKIPEL, Artsfest Film Festival, Baltimore City Paper, CCNY, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Colour out of Space, EMP Collective, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, LMAKprojects, Maryland Film Festival, Maysles Cinema, Microscope Gallery, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Plug Projects, Rencontres Internationales, Sonic Circuits, Spectacle Theater, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, UnionDocs, Utopia Film Festival, VIDEOMEDEJA and Views from the Avant-Garde at the New York Film Festival. He has programmed screenings for NYC microcinemas Maysles Cinema, Spectacle Theater and UnionDocs as well as Antimatter [Media Art] in Victoria, BC. Recently he received the 2012 Creative Alliance Media Makers` Fellowship for Falling Out and was selected as a Semi-Finalist for the 2013 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize for Coupled Vision. Currently Lorenzo is running a roaming monthly screening series in Baltimore called Sight Unseen cofounded by Kate Ewald and Meg Rorison and supported by the 2012 MICA LAB Award.