Vancouver (Coast Salish Territories)

Someday All of This Will Be Yours

Free Film Premier - * A Surrealist Anti-Documentary about Resource Extraction *

8:00pm
Wednesday November 9 2011

25 Minute Hand-processed B&W 16mm film screening, followed by discussion and opportunity to contribute to the finished film!

FREE! invite folks, there will be some treats 

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Someday, All Of This Will Be Yours charts the course of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline as it extends from the base of Burnaby mountain across the Rockies and north to the boreal forest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, the center of oil sands extraction. Captured over the course of two weeks on 16mm by three young gardeners, musicians, and students living in East Vancouver, the film explores rampant resource extraction in both the ecological and social bodies to spark conversation about co-implication and the smokescreen of blame; the interconnectedness of communities across provinces and continents; the relation of the individual to the myriad of acute social, ecological, and political struggles within and outside of one's community; finally, to suggest Vancouver as the ideal site of resistance to further tar sands and pipeline expansion in the west. Shot with little time and resources, processed in buckets of questionable chemistry in the darkroom of the Purple Thistle Center in Strathcona, and cut by hand overnight in the Woodwards building, this film is meant as a living document of our neighborhood and just how far that neighborhood extends.

Presented as part of the Echo Chamber for the 2011 Culture Crawl