The resulting stunning images range from the macrocosmic (the ark-like ruins of an old A-frame surrounded by a fountain of stars) to the mundane (ethereal, avant garde-like sequences titled “Horse Hair, Bones and Sand Exposed”. Collected over four decades, samples and observations of Lucas make up a vast logbook set up in an impressive cabinet of curiosities and meticulous spreadsheets.Īll this immersive material is shot on lush 16 mm film stock, which is sometimes subjected to unconventional exposure and development processes employing natural materials found on the island. There are songbirds and seabirds, and Lucas uncovers a surprising number of bugs, some of which are species unique to the island. Thousands of mournful gray seals make their home there as well as they moan and move around and give birth on the beach. Instead, two records and catalogs list the astonishingly rich and photogenic resources of the Foggy Island, including a herd of wild horses, descendants of those left on the island long ago, which have since been given their distinctive, hardy and have evolved into the shaggy breed. Then there are ribbons and balloon sacks that have come from as far away as Indiana (she writes back to senders if the addressee politely explaining why sending helium balloons up is bad for the environment).Ĭontrary to Sachiko’s observation in Rensford’s film, the island’s waste is to blame for being shared, but neither Lucas nor Mills is much into the lecture (though a few years earlier Lucas gave a lecture to schoolchildren intermittently. These items include thousands of plastic bottles, piles of rope and pieces of netting, and a vast, colorful collection of “nerdles,” pea-sized pre-manufactured plastic shrapnel that are turned into microscopic bits along with other plastic products. For 40 years he has served as a naturalist on Sable Island – a thread of land (twenty-seven miles long less than a mile wide) in the middle of the North Atlantic about 100 miles southeast of Nova Scotia – where other Between duties he collects and inventory the flotsam and jetsam washed ashes. with live Q&A on Journey End available online September 15-25 visit here) Must deal with the detritus that comes from thousands of miles away. Like a Hawaiian beach sweeper all our heartbeatsZoe Lucas Inn geography of solitude (Screen September 18 at 12:30 p.m. Volunteers sort through them and clean the beach 4,000 miles away and of the debris that came from a decade ago.Ī scene from zoe lucas Geography of Solitude. Years later, as far away as the tiny Hawaiian island of Kaho’olawe, large so-called “ghost traps”, clumps of ropes, nets, and mostly plastic debris washed ashore by the tsunami, have been washed ashore. Rainsford’s voiceover description states that the force of the earthquake changed the Earth’s rotation, shortening the day by 1.8 milliseconds. There’s no one to blame.”Īs the title of the movie suggests, if you live anywhere During the holocaust in the world, you too must have been affected by it in some way or the other. She has nightmares, withdraws from all relationships and fears the return of the tsunami. “I feel her close to me.” Satoko, a young woman, suffers from PTSD and the survivor’s guilt. “I think about it when I stop to walk in the middle of a dive,” he says. He has since started scuba diving and passionately searches the ocean for his remains. at the Strand Theater with a live Q&A available online September 15-25 visit here) looks at the fate of some of the survivors. Jennifer Rainsford’s meditative, poetic, often poignant All Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars (Screens September 16 at 12:30 p.m. The subsequent tsunami killed about 20,000 people and left thousands missing. If you were living on the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, you may have experienced one of the most terrible earthquakes in modern history. a view of All our heartbeats are connected through Exploding Stars. Apt for a festival to take place amidst such picturesque surroundings, all three have an impact on the places they find themselves in – and vice versa. This year CIFF has programmed 34 features, including the three must-sees in the past. You could call it the documentary version of the Toronto International Film Festival if Toronto didn’t already have Hot Docs. About four and a half hours of Amtrak rides along the Maine coast, Camden along with its neighbors Rockport and Rockland hosts what may be the best documentary film festivals in New England (Pace Salem and Globedocs). The Camden International Film Festival (September 15-17 online September 15-25) can offer an excellent alternative if you can’t make it to Toronto for their big festival (September 8-18). This year the Camden International Film Festival, which may just be the finest documentary film festival in New England, examines the importance of the place.
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