At last! Oserake and The River That Walks is available on my Robert Ocatillo Channel on YouTube!
Oserake is the First Nation name for the winter quarters which were set up by the river, the origin of the city of Montréal.
My music/film shows what happens to Montréal in winter, when the wilderness takes over.
Overwhelming forces try to return the modern city to the time before today’s streets and blocks existed, and phantoms invade the empty white streets.
Massive snowdrifts, huge icicles and icefalls appear.
Everything is transformed beneath layers of snow,
and we glimpse what was seen by those who founded the original settlement,
by this great river they called ‘the river that walks’, swept with ice.
Oserake is the First Nation name for the winter quarters which were set up by the river, the origin of the city of Montréal.
My music/film shows what happens to Montréal in winter, when the wilderness takes over.
Overwhelming forces try to return the modern city to the time before today’s streets and blocks existed, and phantoms invade the empty white streets.
Massive snowdrifts, huge icicles and icefalls appear.
Everything is transformed beneath layers of snow,
and we glimpse what was seen by those who founded the original settlement,
by this great river they called ‘the river that walks’, swept with ice.
