Six Knots

To reduce ambient noise when approaching a whale, a vessel should not exceed six knots. A long-standing symbol of the distance between human and animal and the mystery of the natural world, the whale is a site of disconnection, fascination and exploitation. Six Knots follows specialists in cetacean death and conservation on the west coast of Canada. The film tracks the grey space between language, sound and image, and the entanglement of colonization, industrialization, and science.