For Wu Tsang’s cinematic reinterpretation of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, Claudia Lopez sourced and licensed archival footage that visually threaded the film’s layered themes of colonization, queerness, and environmental extraction. Her work involved extensive research across international archives and collections to uncover evocative historical material—ranging from 19th- and 20th-century whale hunting, coastal seascapes, and Indigenous communities, to scenes from the Industrial Revolution. The archival textures she assembled helped ground the film’s non-linear storytelling in a visual history that echoes its critique of extractive capitalism and imperial legacy.