Join us for our last Film at Cample screening of 2022: Jacquelyn Mills’ beautifully evocative Geographies of Solitude — a portrait of the remote Sable Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. 

Geographies of Solitude is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, guided by naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural world. Zoe leads us among wild horses, seals and bugs, through peaks, valleys, roots, sands, weathers, seasons and stars. The intangible is evoked with hidden sounds and vanishing light. Much like a field book, the film tracks its protagonist's labor to collect, clean and document marine litter that persistently washes up on the island shores.

“I don’t know what the solution is to our environmental crisis, and I don’t necessarily consider myself a political filmmaker. But it breaks my heart that the world is in the state it’s in environmentally. If we can experience what is sacred in nature, and the wonder of the natural world, I believe we would have ‘less taste for destruction’, as Rachel Carson would say. That’s why I made this film. To work with our current reality. Can we honor places? Can that inspire us to treat them with reverence?” - Director, Jacquelyn Mills

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Jacquelyn Mills is a filmmaker based in Montréal. Her works are immersive and sensorial, often exploring an intimate and healing connection to the natural world. Her award-winning documentary In the Waves (60') premiered at Visions du Réel and was theatrically released at TIFF’s Cinematheque. Her most recent work Geographies of Solitude (103') premiered at the Berlinale Forum winning three awards, and has since garnered over a dozen awards internationally including Grand Jury Prize at Jeonju International Film Festival as well as Best Canadian Feature Film and Best Emerging Director at Hot Docs. Jacquelyn is a Sundance Documentary Fund Alumni and has worked as editor, sound designer and cinematographer for the National Film Board of Canada as well as many other internationally acclaimed films.