SCENES FROM A PLACE WHERE
RAILS AND WATER MEET
Drayden DeCosta | Canada | 2025 | 74m
In Drayden DeCosta’s debut feature, the first independent arthouse film made entirely on-location in Welland, Ontario:
Dee and his best friend Ken waste another day; listening to the radio until it conks out, throwing rocks at the remnants of industry, being pestered by a stranger... Dee wanders through the place that he calls home, taking in his surroundings and contemplating life. Consumed by an ambient sadness, Dee bears witness to many strange sights, culminating in a chance encounter with another soul that is just as lost and lonesome as he is.
‘Scenes from a Place Where Rails and Water Meet’ is a bittersweet ode to life adrift; an engrossing slice of Niagara New-Wave that is at once, bleak and hopeful.
Drayden DeCosta is a writer/director, filmmaker and movie buff from Welland, Ontario, Canada. Drayden’s films are personal works often based on his experiences growing up in Welland. Drayden has made work across a variety of mediums (16mm, 35mm, 8mm tape, Digital, Hybridity) and across a variety of genres (documentary, experimental, narrative-fiction). Drayden derives his influence from European Arthouse Films, Second-Wave American Independent Films, the Slow-Cinema Movement and Poetic-Realism. You can learn more about his films at: www.railwaterproductions.com
