Optical ruminations on an unpredictable region of Earth where raging storms and calm waters coexist. Seafarers are not only contained within this indeterminate state, but also within the film frame.

The Equatorial Calms

As its title suggests, Derek Taylor’s Scenes from the Periphery concerns itself with the spatial qualities of narrative, taking meaning from the grid-like abstractions of an aerial survey that points to histories of human settlement: arrow-straight roads, field boundaries, markers of cultivated territory.