How Deep is Your Love
The deep sea is the last unknown territory on Earth.
A group of biologists sets out to study the otherworldly animals of the abyss, but time is running out as a race for resources looms over these fragile, ancient ecosystems.
Reviews
How Deep Is Your Love is one spectacular visual extravaganza.
In the lyrically gorgeous imagery of “How Deep Is Your Love” is gnawing tension. Mortimer’s Mark Cousins-esque narration is distanced, yet ethereal.
Mortimer doesn’t push an opinion onto the viewers. Instead, she maintains a steady quietness throughout, giving the audience room to think.
Upcoming Screenings
Bergen Film Festival
Date TBC
Team
Eleanor Mortimer
Director, Writer, Narrator, DOP
Eleanor is a documentary filmmaker from the UK. If she was a deep-sea animal she would be a headless chicken monster. Website
Jacob Thomas
Producer
Jacob Thomas is a fiction and documentary producer based in London, UK. He would love to be a swimming worm in the abyss.
Nicole Hálová
Editor
Nicole Hálová is a documentary editor based in London. She studied film editing at FAMU in Prague.
Maya Daisy Hawke
Supervising Editor
Maya Daisy Hawke is an award winning Editor, Consulting Editor and Supervising Editor.
Fraya Thomsen
Composer
Fraya Thomsen is a composer who has composed music for award winning short films and produced music for contemporary dance and visual artists as well as concert commissions.
John Cohen
Sound Designer
John Cohen is a freelance sound designer working in the UK.
Jo Amery
VFX Supervisor
Jo Amery is a London-based VFX / CG Supervisor / CG Generalist with over 15 years of experience in film and episodic television.
Muriel Rabone
Science Advisor, Co-producer
Muriel is a biologist with an interest in science policy, her areas of expertise are deep sea ecology and parasitology. She self-identifies as a deep sea crinoid.
Cast and Scientists
Barbie Pig (species unknown)
Sea cucumber (echninoderm)
Nicknamed 'barbie pig' by ecologist Bethany Fleming, this lil fella hangs out on the sea floor, moving slowly, devouring sediment as they go.
Dr Lupita Bribiesca Contreras
Scientist (homo sapiens)
Lupita is a deep-sea biologist interested in biogeography, evolution, and echinoderms. If she was a deep sea creature she would be a swimming sea cucumber.
Ping Pong Sponge (species unknown)
Sponge
Nicknamed the Ping Pong Sponge by the scientists, this animal could be housing lots of much smaller animals.
Caspar the ghost octopus
Species Unknown (Mullusca)
This octopus, nicknamed Caspar the ghost, has not yet been given a latin name by scientists.
Bethany Fleming
deep sea biologist (homo sapiens)
Bethany is deep sea ecologist whose work focuses on spatial and temporal patterns in the abyss.
Psychropotes semperiana
Gummy squirrel (echinodermata)
Nicknamed 'gummy squirrel' by taxonomist Regan Drennan, scientists could only speculate what they use their 'sail' for until they filmed something unexpected on the cruise.
Long-legged amphipod
species unknown (arthropoda)
A tiny but nevertheless charismatic crustacean.
Eva Stewart
Deep sea biologist (home sapiens)
Eva is a PHD student studying deep sea invertebrates and recently described a new genus of starfish parasite mizostomid.
Brachiopod
species unknown (brachiopoda)
Brachiopods are known as 'living fossils' because they are some of the oldest forms of life to exist - dating back at least 550 million years. This one lives on a polymetallic nodule.
Psychronaetes hanseni
Sea Cucumber (echinodermata)
The big purple sea cucumber nicknamed 'The King' by the scientists. First described by taxonomist Dave Pawson in 1983.
Dr Belen Arias
scientist (homo sapiens)
Belen is a deep-sea biologist whose work focusses on molecular approaches and population genomics to understand how organisms adapt to different environments.
Freyella Benthophilia
Brittle Star (echinodermata)
This brittle star lives on a polymetallic nodule, raising their long legs into the water current to catch 'marine snow' (biological matter) drifting down from the shallows. Marine snow provides food for animals on the seabed.
Enypniastes eximia
The Headless Chicken Monster (echinodermata)
The headless chicken monster, so named because of her similarity to a plucked chicken when swimming, has a unique form of self defence - ejecting the contents of the gut at any aggressor.
Dr Adrian Glover
Deep-sea Ocean Scientist (homo sapiens)
Adrian leads the Deep Sea Systematics Group at the Natural History Museum in London. He has a special interest in polycheates (deep sea worms).
Crinoid
species and genus unknown
This crinoid may be thousands of years old. Described by one crew member as a 'stick insect with tassels' it is in fact an animal not a plant, in the same family as starfish.
Cerataspis monstrosus
Penaeid Shrimp (arthropoda)
A relative of the shallow water shrimp, this one is named 'monstrosus' because it has blue horns in its larval stage.
Lucas King
Marine biologist (homo sapiens)
Lucas is a deep-sea biologist with a passion for squid, sea cucumbers and drawing.
Prickly pear
species unknown (echinodermata)
This unnamed species of sea urchin seemed to be a micro habitat for lots of tiny creatures including amphipods (crustaceans).
Dr Daniel O.B Jones
Deep-sea ecologist (homo sapiens)
Co-expedition lead Daniel Jones specialises in studying disturbance in the abyss.
Coryphaenoides acrolepis
chordata
More commonly known as 'rattails' these fish have enormous eyes in order to see prey but nevertheless would always crash into the ROV - perhaps the light was too bright and alien for them to see?
Neanthes Goodayi
polychaete worm (annelida)
Nicknamed nodule worm because of where he lives, this worm was recently described by Regan Drennan. Who says worms can't be cute?
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