Docuseek | How to Carry Water

This punk rock fairytale doubles as a portrait of Shoog McDaniel — a fat, queer, and disabled photographer working in and around northern Florida’s vast network of freshwater springs, the state’s source of precious drinking water. For over a decade, Shoog’s photographs have transformed the way fat people view themselves and how a fat-phobic society views fat bodies. Bringing Shoog’s photography to life, the film immerses audiences in a world of fat beauty and liberation, one in which marginalized bodies — including bodies of water — are sacred.

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Wortzel, Sasha (film director)
Wortzel, Sasha (screenwriter)
Cassingham, Colleen (film producer)
Devaney, Jess (film producer)
Rous, Anya (film producer)
McDaniel, Shoog (on-screen participant)

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Cinematography, J. Bennett; editing, Veridiana Leiberman, Grace Mendenhall; music, Geo Wyex.

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LGBTQ+,Fat Liberation,Fat Beauty,body image,Disability,disabled,Environment,Florida,Photography,photographer,Shoog McDaniel,marginalized bodies,punk rock,fatphobic,fat phobic,Queer Futures; "How to Carry Water"; GOOD DOCS

SHOOG: 01:31

Down here, my body is no longer something I have to carry. The water carries me.

SHOOG: 06:09

I live out here alone but I'm never lonely. There's always friends coming through. We go swimming and we create together.

SHOOG: 06:26

I would like some people to start picking up flowers and sniffing them a little bit. Just to get into the mood smelling what's going on.

ANNA: 06:55

I remember the first time I cuddled with another fat person. Feeling how soft and wonderful, like glorious it was to touch this other person. If I thought that about this other person, I must, you know, inherently be glorious, soft, and wonderful to touch myself. I'm abundant.

MATIAS: 07:27

I recently became a slut.

SHOOG: 07:34

Yay!

MATIAS: 07:34

Like really started engaging with my sexuality in like a more authentic, more unapologetic way. And I'm having a lot of fun.

MELBA: 08:01

There's so many different folds, and I can put my hands under my belly and keep them warm and I can do that for others. The erotic is not just sexual, it's anything that brings me pleasure.

MELBA: 10:35

I was taught that rest was something I had to earn. I worked myself to the bone and put everything above myself. And now I realize that my conservation and my existence in this world is an act of resistance.

ANNA: 11:08

We are our bodies and we're more than that too. We're able to dream big, dream fat, wherever it can take us. Fat power, that's what I'm saying.

SHOOG: 11:18

Fat power - that's what you're saying?

ANNA: 11:20

Yeah.

MATIAS: 11:24

I'm trying to enjoy existing in this body that I have right now, that has taken me so far and has like, been with me every step of the way. Ain't nobody gonna stop me. Nobody ever has.

SHOOG: 12:18

The whole creation process is the art. These kind of spaces are rare for us. But they’re what we need to heal. To create more fat art, and more fat love.

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