70 mins |
Rated
E
ELEMENTA (43mins)
Deep in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest lives a rare, unique and seldom seen creature, a black bear with white fur, known locally as Moksgm’ol (the ghost bear). According to local mythology, the creator Raven asked the black bear to make one in ten cubs white, as a reminder of the Great White Time, when the world was covered in ice.
Elementa completes Richard’s Speechless trilogy, which began a decade ago with Landscapes at the World’s Ends (Doc Edge 2011) and continued with Speechless: The Polar Realm (Doc Edge 2015).
Filmed over five years on seven continents, Elementa is Sidey’s second collaboration with musician Boreal Taiga (Landscapes at the World’s Ends).
Ice, fire, earth, air and æther collide in this artistic, environmental feature, visually guided by compelling cinematography from Earth’s most remote lands. Experience the vast wilderness of the white continent and ancient rainforests, to the revered power of the world’s oceans and erupting volcanoes.
The film is a black-and-white visual meditation of all that is wild — an escape, and a chance to reconnect with the wilderness.
Prepare yourself for full immersion. Explore, Uplift, Reconnect.
PLUCK (27mins)
12 years ago Jean learned to weave korowai, traditional Māori feather cloaks. Her source of feathers varies from unravelled feather dusters to roadkill. To date, Jean has made 15 cloaks for her community.
But now she faces her own mortality, with the realisation that she hasn’t made one for her daughter. For this korowai, Jean takes us on a weka hunt to the windswept and barren Chatham Islands, Rekohu – 600 kilometres off the coast of Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand.
It’s a tough time, given that Jean is now on her third round of chemotherapy, but she is adamantly determined to make one last trip. Jean’s openness and honesty is refreshing, as she tells her story with humour and frankness.
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ELEMENTA (43mins)
Deep in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest lives a rare, unique and seldom seen creature, a black bear with white fur, known locally as Moksgm’ol (the ghost bear). According to local mythology, the creator Raven asked the black bear to make one in ten cubs white, as a reminder of the Great White Time, when the world was covered in ice.
Elementa completes Richard’s Speechless trilogy, which began a decade ago with Landscapes at the World’s Ends (Doc Edge 2011) and continued with Speechless: The Polar Realm (Doc Edge 2015).
Filmed over five years on seven continents, Elementa is Sidey’s second collaboration with musician Boreal Taiga (Landscapes at the World’s Ends).
Ice, fire, earth, air and æther collide in this artistic, environmental feature, visually guided by compelling cinematography from Earth’s most remote lands. Experience the vast wilderness of the white continent and ancient rainforests, to the revered power of the world’s oceans and erupting volcanoes.
The film is a black-and-white visual meditation of all that is wild — an escape, and a chance to reconnect with the wilderness.
Prepare yourself for full immersion. Explore, Uplift, Reconnect.
PLUCK (27mins)
12 years ago Jean learned to weave korowai, traditional Māori feather cloaks. Her source of feathers varies from unravelled feather dusters to roadkill. To date, Jean has made 15 cloaks for her community.
But now she faces her own mortality, with the realisation that she hasn’t made one for her daughter. For this korowai, Jean takes us on a weka hunt to the windswept and barren Chatham Islands, Rekohu – 600 kilometres off the coast of Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand.
It’s a tough time, given that Jean is now on her third round of chemotherapy, but she is adamantly determined to make one last trip. Jean’s openness and honesty is refreshing, as she tells her story with humour and frankness.