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Nature Block

Duration: 85

Nature Block Shorts

A girl left for dead gets devoured by forest spirits.

 

Marta and Aysha play in a post-apocalyptic environment. Marta asks her friend to accompany her to her grandparents’ house, as she would not be able to do it on her own. Marta and Aysha’s journey is a poetic reflection on childhood in a post-disaster time.

 

 

This work is a sensory and tactile immersion in a grandmother’s tipi. Through her memories of living in a tipi, this film captures the sweetness of everyday life, the joy of cooking and the passage of time.

 

When Sandy West inherited Ossabaw, one of America’s last wild barrier islands, she chose not to keep it for herself. Instead, she forged a revolutionary vision that protected 25,000 acres while inviting generations of artists, scientists, and conservationists to help imagine a different relationship between people and the natural world.

 

Welcome to Mississauga where lawns are clipped, neighbors are watchful and no blade of grass dares misbehave. Except at Wolf Ruck’s place. His lawn grows wild, and so does the trouble.

 

A filmmaker questions their grandfather, an academic forester and U.S. Forest Service member, about resisting, surviving, and protecting community while working within institutions that reject you.

 

An elderly woman wilting away in a retirement home longs to commune with the vibrant natural world outside. This magical short offers a positive spin on our impending mortality.

 

 

Shown as a part of Finding Bright Film Festival  (Formerly Arlington International Film Festival)

All Tickets are $14, Capitol/Somerville Theatre Members are $12

 

Nature Block Tickets

Saturday November 7
2:00 pm
Tickets