George Matthews

Evan, a filmmaker from Mississippi, catches feelings for a gal he meets at a found footage film festival in San Francisco. They decide to make a movie together, exploring the haunted landscapes of Evan’s family history in the swamplands of Florida. Old wounds are reopened and generational trauma reveals itself to be perhaps the scariest part of this attempted mockumentary that ends up being a little too real.

Shot on 16mm in 1991, just a year before Wright’s death, Low Tide is a gorgeously textured, newly restored film-essay documenting a short walk in coastal South Carolina. Low Tide exemplifies Wright’s approach to filmmaking and his interest in memory, the natural world, and the ways humanity encroaches upon them both.

The third and final film by Thomas Wright to be restored by Artifacture Laboratories.

A companion piece to 'Low Tide: A Newly Restored Work by Thomas Wright', Low Tide DLC tells the story of another of Thomas Wright's lost films: 'Lowlands: Summer '88,' an impressionistic formal study comprised and sound and landscapes and textures made during travels through the United States in the spring of 1989.