Geographies of Solitude (2022)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 103 minuten
Country:
Canada
Directed by: Jacquelyn Mills
Stars: Zoe Lucas
IMDb score:
7,4 (446)
Releasedate: 17 February 2022
Geographies of Solitude plot
Zoe Lucas has lived for over 40 years on Sable Island, a patch of land over 20 miles long and a mile wide in the Atlantic Ocean, near Nova Scotia. She lives in complete harmony with the overwhelming nature, which she studies, charts and maintains where necessary and possible.
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hvdriel
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- 397 messages
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Zoë Lucas has been on Sable Island for forty years now. The documentary wants to show how she experiences the island, as she herself tells off screen in a lecture. This appears not to be possible with National Geographic slick images, but it is possible via 16 mm celluloid: down-to-earth, taking stock, collecting with an eye for detail.
Filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills and Lucas himself chose not to focus on the island resident (we don't even see her face for a long time), but to record nature in dirty images: 16 mm celluloid without light corrections and sometimes with some dust on the lens. The imagery itself also becomes part of nature because Mills places unexposed material in nature and later develops it using seaweed, which produces remarkable, abstract images. Not only the images, but also the sound is produced by nature, sometimes quite literally when contact microphones record the sound of invertebrates or wood, which in turn forms the basis for a piece of music.
After the film you have/could have experienced nature on the island in a cinematically unique way and you know little or nothing about the island resident Zoë Lucas, exactly what she and the filmmaker had in mind.
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mrklm
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- 11659 messages
- 10059 votes
Since the early 1980s, Zoe Lucas has spent 80% of her time on Sable Island, a sandy island about 180 kilometers southeast of Nova Scotia, Canada. Zoe is there to observe, research and record. It is a national park where no one else comes and where nature takes its course. Everything that dies eventually produces life again and Zoe has seen flora and fauna come and go. The first part of this documentary focuses on nature. With special sound equipment, Mills makes unique recordings of seals, but also of insects. The second part shows the impact of pollution. Each plastic bottle and balloon is entered in the logbook with date and description and is stored safely. Nature is clearly better off without humans, it seems. Beautifully filmed with respect for the environment. Make sure you see this with optimal sound.
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