AMANDA HAMILTON created the short film Beautiful Terrible in response to the strange and sudden disappearance of White Lake near the remote village of Bolotnikovo, Russia in May 2005. No one directly witnessed the event, but nearby villagers were stunned to wake up and find only a deep muddy hole. It is assumed that underground caverns collapsed causing the earth to swallow the lake and surrounding trees, but this scientific description can hardly satisfy the imagination for such a sublimely terrifying event. Hamilton was thus compelled to recon- struct the lake in scale and conjure the mysterious cataclysm on video.
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