Symchronized drowning

It is not very often that I ever do much outside home on weekday nights, where the endless cycle of dog-walking, children-feeding, and laundry-folding often ends up just swallowing my time. But last night something amazing (or so I thought......) was happening. Ulrik’s school had a visiting movie director who is working on a Titanic project. Something about re-filming it with more focus on the female story (well, in the movie it isactually Rose that survives because there is no space for Jack on the raft. I guess that is as female as an ending can get!). The custom design line had worked on costumes and props and teamed up with the synchronized swim team from university of Michigan. And it all took place at the Natatorium aka the big university pool.

I made sure Teresa and I were there super early. Totally not necessary, which she made sure to let me know repeatedly throughout the evening. And first there were costumes such as the chimney (????) and a lifeboat:

And then they started filming. One of the scenes were “the death of the captain”. A tragic death by bellyflop from a diving board:

And finally everyone started drowning:

It is by far one of the weirdest things I have seen ever seen. And not necessarily in a good way. The best part was the water polo team practicing in the neighbor pool. Water polo is a violent sport with big hunky dudes, who were the exact opposite of all the artsy art students. It seemed like they used their whistles a bit extra that night to disturb the filming going on. LOL