Geographies of Solitude

Canada2022documentary103'Docs+Science (2024)

Made on 16 mm film, this portrayal of Zoe Lucas is devoted to the naturalist who spent over 40 years studying Canada’s Sable Island in the Atlantic. The Canadian director’s accidental visit to the isle in 1971 turned into a physical and scientific bond, which was also irrational and transcendent. Her analysis of the island’s population of wild horses became a chronicle of the cyclical interlacing of the animate with the inanimate. In the story about the pervasive Anthropocene beyond the horizon presented in this almost synesthetic film overcoming the barrier of sight and hearing, the voice is given to nature.