Hard Light Cinema

🐘 Part 1/3 of our series Burden of the Beast

GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE follows an ecologist who has lived alone for over 40 years on Sable Island, an otherwise un-human-inhabited strip of sand off the coast of Nova Scotia. She meticulously takes samples and records data on every aspect of her surroundings – the life cycles of the wild horses, the migration of birds, and every piece of plastic trash that litters the shores. Shot on gorgeous 16mm and interrupted by cameraless direct film experiments, Jacquelyn Mill’s debut feature is a gentle and thorough conversation between art, science, and wildness.

— Syd, Hard Light Cinema