When the Water Stops Flowing
- Documentary
1/3/2026
Storyline
Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is taken away. For this work, he examines anecdotal histories he has heard from Estonians, as well as stories from his own family history in the Netherlands, weaving them together into a journal-like narrative.
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- sea
- beach
- berlin wall
- cold war
- world war ii
- soviet union
- border
- bunker
- time
- waterfall
- memory
- construction site
- found footage
- gentrification
- grandmother
- panorama
- nazi occupation
- deathbed
- coast
- maritime
- post cold war
- russian occupation
- the hague
- post soviet union
- oil painting
- smartphone camera
- den haag
- scheveningen
- hospice
- grandmother grandson relationship
- water
- city redevelopment
- hydroelectric dam
- post-war
- tallinn
- berlin
