Shallow Waters - The Public Death of Raymond Zack (2015) [mp4] torrent

The Story

It is high noon on Memorial Day at Crown Beach, Alameda, California. A tall, middle-aged, fully dressed man walks up to his shoulders into the cold shallow waters of San Francisco Bay, and waits. Police and Fire units show up in droves, and wait. A good-sized crowd gathers to watch the scene, and waits.

They all watch, transfixed, as the sand in the man’s hourglass runs out. Succumbing to hypothermia, he loses consciousness within the hour. His body is left to drift back to shore, untouched, for twenty-two minutes.

SHALLOW WATERS is a documentary film that deconstructs the events of that hour in an attempt to understand what happened and why. Specifically, the film seeks to understand both the apparent inaction of the first responders and the actions of Raymond Zack. What were they all waiting for?