About Greetings from Isolation
Created by Canadian veteran film programmer Stacey Donen in the hopes of finding inspiration and enlightenment from our shared human experience of isolation under COVID-19, Greetings from Isolation has invited a broad range of Canadian filmmakers to participate in a capsule collection film project.
The project will include new and original works filmed while living in isolation from Matthew Rankin (The Twentieth Century), Sadaf Faroughi (Ava), Brett Story (The Hottest August) Ann Marie Fleming (Window Horses), Richard Fung (Sea in the Blood), John Greyson (Lilies), Larry Kent (Bitter Ash), Barbara Sternberg (Like a Dream That Vanishes), Peter Lynch (Project Grizzly), Gariné Torossian (Girl from Moush), Alan Zweig (Hurt) and Yuqi Kang (A Little Wisdom) among others. The collection of films will be released online beginning in May, 2020
Currently there are around around 100 participating Canadian filmmakers creating short films across genres, including fiction, documentary, essay, and video diary, with more filmmakers expected to come on board in the coming months. Each filmmaker will use their own phone or personal camera and anything else that is available to them in their living space, with no budget attached.
“A few weeks ago, I began my involuntary new life as an at-home kindergarten teacher with my 5 year-old Sophie, who incidentally thinks I am pretty boring. With the few minutes of the day not building forts, struggling with origami, or watching Buster Keaton movies, I reached out to a group of my filmmaker friends to gauge their interest in participating in this project,” said Stacey Donen. “What’s happening around us is unprecedented, momentous, and frankly hard to believe or understand. All around the world we find ourselves forcibly separated from one another. With our extraordinary new everyday routines, connecting with one another is more important than ever.”
Stacey Donen of VeryNiceVeryNice and his daughter Sophie.
Browse the Collection:
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A Grief Observed
director: Matthew Rankin
Winnipeg, Manitoba
May 10th 2020 + June 10th, 2020
3min 35sec
Matthew spends Mother's Day in his mom's house slowly deleting her voicemails.
I Just Want to Wake Up
director: Heather Frise
Toronto, Ontario
April/May 2020
3min
Snippets of night-time conversations and drawings create a sense of the pandemic world Heather finds herself in - juggling work, homeschooling her daughter, and taking care of her mother who has Alzheimer’s.
Cohabitat
director: Kara Blake
Montreal, Quebec
June 14, 2020
2min 25sec
An escapist antidote to feeling isolated - imagining our homes as a host to a growing number of plants and animals whether we’re aware of it or not.
moments between moments
director: Mike Rollo
Regina, Saskatchewan
June 15-21, 2020
5min 20sec
Days of the week blend together.
Seeing Absence
director: Lisa Rideout
Toronto, Ontario
April 23, 2020
3min 40sec
Director Lisa Rideout explores what’s missing in a neighbourhood impacted by social distancing.
A Time Out
director: aAron Munson
St. Albert, Alberta
June 21 & 22nd, 2020
3min 45sec
An impression of a family on pause.
Solace
director: Julia Hart & Samantha Kaine
June 17, 2020
3min 10 sec
Two friends share a phone conversation an ocean apart – “if all of this wasn’t happening, where in the world do you think you would be?”
Words
director: Simon Davidson
West Vancouver, British Columbia
March 25-26, 2020
5min 15sec
The day-to-day struggles of a young girl with dyslexia and her attempts to learn remotely during isolation times.
Alphelion
director: Nadia Litz
Toronto, Ontario
April 5, 2020
3min 40sec
Regular handwashing is one of the best ways to remove germs, avoid getting sick, and prevent the spread of germs to others.
In This Moment
director: Yuqi Kang
Inner Mongol; Calgary, Alberta
June, 2020
3min 45sec
An intimate and very personal look at how even the most certain things in life can be taken away in the blink of an eye.
once there was once there wasn’t
director: Rolla Tahir – رولا طاهر
Toronto (Kuwait, Sudan)
May/June 2020 (1988 - 1991)
3min 20sec
Immigrant families already in a form of isolation keep connected across time zones by experiencing births and birthdays, eids and ramadans at a distance.
A Walk in the Park
director: Kelly O’Brien
Toronto, Ontario
March - May, 2020
6min 55sec
A young girl describes the struggles of life under quarantine in letters to her grandparents.
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