Filmmaker Jennifer Abbott marks Earth Day with climate-crisis talk, via VIFF April 20 at 1 pm
The director’s moving The Magnitude of All Things screens all month via VIFF Connect
A still from the documentary The Magnitude of All Things.
Director Jennifer Abbott.
VIFF presents Paradise Lost: Grief & Hope in the Time of Climate Crisis via Facebook as part of its Vancity Impact Talks series, April 20 at 1 pm. VIFF Connect screens The Magnitude of All Things until April 30.
WITH HER deeply personal documentary The Magnitude of All Things, filmmaker Jennifer Abbott makes the profound leap from losing a sister to cancer to the larger grief of climate disaster. In poetic, essaylike form, she links her own loss and questions about mortality to situations in Australia, the Amazon, the Arctic, and beyond.
Now, to mark Earth Day this week, the director joins a VIFF panel of experts to talk about the way she recasts the world’s environmental crisis through bereavement, both personal and planetary.
Abbott, who also codirected acclaimed xxxcapitalism docs The Corporation and The New Corporation, is joined by Dr. Ashlee Cunsolo, health geographer and founding Dean of the School of Arctic and Subarctic Studies in the Labrador Institute of Memorial University; and Belén Páez, community leader within the Pachamama Alliance in Ecuador. Journalist Dahr Jamail, author of The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption, moderates.
Before the talk, be sure to screen The Magnitude of All Things, produced by the NFB, available on VIFF Connect all month, and free to view to Vancity Credit Union members. Expect to be moved away from a sense of helplessness about the climate crisis to a new sense of action.
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