Long View explores the historical, military, and personal threads that connect geographies on the Pacific Rim. All the characters in Long View regularly stop to scan the horizon, perhaps watching for potential threats, or simply letting their gaze drift longingly across the ocean to coasts on the other side of the Pacific. But when they dig a hole on the beach and the anonymous black-clad figure amongst them disappears into it, a different temporality takes hold. Archival images, dizzying camera movements and experimental sound signal a passage to an interior, memory-based reality. Past, present, and future; here and there; then and now are all caught in an undertow, swirling together in a disorienting montage that brings the site’s histories to the surface.