Sun, Dec 5 / 2:30pm
Directed by Jennifer Abbott
2020, Canada, 86 min
When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Abbott’s new documentary The Magnitude of All Things draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the frontlines of climate change merge with recollections from the filmmaker’s childhood on Ontario’s Georgian Bay. What do these stories have in common? The answer, surprisingly, is everything. For the people featured, climate change is not happening in the distant future: it is kicking down the front door. Battles waged, lamentations of loss, and raw testimony coalesce into an extraordinary tapestry, woven together with raw emotion and staggering beauty that transform darkness into light, grief into action.
Plays with
When Land and Body Merge
Dir. Jaime Black and Lindsay Delaronde, Canada, 8 mins
Jaime Black and Lindsay Delaronde live in territories that are far apart. These territories look vastly different, the caregivers of these lands speak different languages, ceremonies and traditions differ. Through the creation of this online project it became clear that Jaime and Lindsay share an understanding of care and connection to the land. The territories they live on, the Lekwungen Territory and Treaty One Territory are the third collaborators in the project.
