Anaconda River Dock Drag

Handheld smartphone at eye level on the river bank, about fifteen feet back, looking slightly

down past the shoulder of a seated camera operator toward a weathered wooden dock. A performer

in a shortie wetsuit stands at the dock edge, leaning over opaque tan-brown water where a dark

crescent of snake body sits barely submerged. On "action" she points at the shape; the snake

erupts vertically, the head buries into her chest and takes her off her feet; it coils over her