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Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven

Thu & Fri, Mar 10 & 11 / 7 pm
Sat, Mar 12 / 3 pm & 7 pm
Sun, Mar 13 / 3 pm
Wed & Thu, Mar 16 & 17 / 7 pm
Sat, Mar 19 / 3 pm
Directed by Phyllis Ellis
2105, Canada, 90 min

One hundred years after the Group of Seven created Canada’s most iconic paintings, little is known about the artists themselves. Past meets present in a beautiful film energized by breathtaking aerial and landscape cinematography exploring the rivers and lakes of Algoma and the land north of Lake Superior. Colm Feore, Eric Peterson, R.H. Thomson and Paul Gross read the letters and diaries of Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, J.E.H. MacDonald and Frederick Varley. The film seamlessly weaves the experiences of these artists with the investigations of three modern day sleuths, Gary & Joanie McGuffin and Michael Burtch who are determined to find the precise locations the artists painted.

Reviews

Breathtaking cinematography of the Canadian Shield augmented by a masterful fusion of original Group of Seven paintings, archival images (cinematic and photographic) and text — letters, journals and newspaper accounts.
- Rob Reid, Reid Between the Lines
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