Cool Water (1991)

Note: Note: This short film is lost media.

21-year-old Keith Blauschild, formally trained in the culinary arts, is also a self-taught ice carver. Together with his fiancee Angela Boone, Keith sculpts intricate but impermanent artworks for catered affairs, hotels, cruise ships and for advertising promotions. In this short documentary profile, Keith is filmed as he fashions a prototype (a sword-bearing warrior fighting a dragon) for an upcoming ice carving competition. At the contest site, the young man joins scores of other chainsaw-wielding sculptors busily freeing their creations from blocks of ice. Although Keith does not win a prize, his devotion to ice-carving remains intact. Moving from his home in New Jersey to a new life in Florida, Keith is featured as the "Person of the Week" on a Florida news broadcast

Director: Kahane Cooperman
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 15 min
Release Date:
Editing: Kahane Cooperman
Production: Columbia University School of the Arts
Language: English
Original Language: en

Themes

Behind the Scenes of Sports: Documentary Stories

Keywords

biography, documentary, ice carving

More Films by Director: Kahane Cooperman
More Films in Genre: Documentary

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Cool Water about?
21-year-old Keith Blauschild, formally trained in the culinary arts, is also a self-taught ice carver. Together with his fiancee Angela Boone, Keith sculpts intricate but impermanent artworks for catered affairs, hotels, cruise ships and for advertising promotions. In this short documentary profile, Keith is filmed as he fashions a prototype (a sword-bearing warrior fighting a dragon) for an upcoming ice carving competition. At the contest site, the young man joins scores of other chainsaw-wielding sculptors busily freeing their creations from blocks of ice. Although Keith does not win a prize, his devotion to ice-carving remains intact. Moving from his home in New Jersey to a new life in Florida, Keith is featured as the "Person of the Week" on a Florida news broadcast
Who directed Cool Water?
Cool Water was directed by Kahane Cooperman.
How long is Cool Water?
Cool Water has a runtime of 15m (15 minutes).
What genre is Cool Water?
Cool Water is a Documentary film.
What are the themes of Cool Water?
The themes of Cool Water include: Behind the Scenes of Sports: Documentary Stories.