Walk the Walk

Walk the Walk is a film about the lives of three people and at the same time an X-ray photo of sea views, agricultural and industrial areas. It is by Robert Kramer’s standards a slightly hermetic, but intriguing film in which documentary and fictional elements come together in a story that is a cross between diary notes and travelogues and in which improvisation seems to play a major role.Nellie, Abel and their daughter Raye live near a lighthouse in the wilds of nature. The family is an organic union, despite the mutual differences. The white mother is a biologist, the black father is an athlete and the daughter is a singer. They are all seeking their own way, a quest in which icons from navigation (compass, lighthouse) play an important role. One day, Raye decides to investigate the world to expand her horizons, and at the same time she destroys the balance in the family. Raye starts to travel Europe, from a silent yet passionate desire to meet people and to be confronted with their disconcerting difference (a criminal, a musician, a junkie), in order to experience the world in her own way. Soon after, Abel leaves by ship for Odessa. He can live anywhere, as long as he has room to train his body. Nellie however remains at home in her maritime surroundings. As a microbiologist she is studying sedimentation, because the earth also has a memory, an organic memory.