Fri, Oct 21 / 6:30pm
FREE ADMISSION
Dir. Jennifer Abbott
2020, Canada, 85 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:
Untitled, 2014
Directed by Julie René de Cotret
Canada, 45 seconds
Stitching my Landscape
Directed by Maureen Gruben
Canada, 7 min
Last Breaths on the Great Expanse
Directed by Kelsey Braun
Canada, 2 min
Warming
Directed by Colleen MacIsaac
Vistas: Walk in the Forest
Directed by Diane Obomsawin
Canada, 3 min
Presented in partnership with Gallery 1C03.
