Something Shiny

HD, color, sound, 21:40, 2018/24

Documentary portrait of the 30th Annual World Championship Crystal Dig, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA.

That day, the first digging day, is so hot, the red earth pouring off the heat right back into the cloudless blue sky and back down again in an irredeemable October loop. Sheryl and another guy keep coming up the hillside with heavy buckets full of ice with water bottles. We drink them like they’re nothing. I eat a package of gummy bears and continue digging and don’t pee all day.