Greetings from Isolation
Greetings from Isolation is a Canadian film project, launched in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.[1] Created by film programmer Stacey Donen as an "online film festival", the project features short films by Canadian film directors, created exclusively with whatever cast and equipment resources they have with them during social distancing.[2]
As of July 28, 2020, 68 films have premiered on the project website, with around 100 films expected in total.[3] Announced participants whose films have not yet premiered include Anita Doron, Igor Drljaca and André Turpin.
Norman Wilner of Now favourably reviewed the first batch of films on the site, writing that "there’s a fascinating range of approaches and tones, and it's endlessly interesting to see how the individual artists respond to Donen's challenge and its limitations. More often than not, they employ themselves as their own actors – because of course they'd have to – but that just makes the shorts feel even more personal and engaging. How many of these filmmakers have ever put themselves at the centre of their own work?"[2]
Films[edit]
- Benjamin Ayres, Nada Sleep
- Laura Bari, Si
- Daniel Barrow, Advanced Search Terms
- Christina Battle, The Time It Takes to Hear It
- Will Bhaneja, The Shed
- Kara Blake, Cohabitat
- Roger Boyer, Journey to Nothing
- Dan Browne, Glimmer
- Valerie Buhagiar, The Company
- Cliff Caines, a garden path, a garden path
- Miryam Charles, I've Known Rivers
- Katerina Cizek, Window Visits
- Simon Davidson, Words
- Martha Davis, Housebound
- Robert Dayton, Pandemic Get Away
- Winston De Giobbi, Like a Horse in Quarantine
- Francisca Duran, change over time
- Ann Marie Fleming, Vancouver April 2020 18:59:30 PT
- Sadaf Foroughi, Chronicle of a Spring
- Heather Frise, I Just Want to Wake Up
- Janine Fung, What Is Home?
- Richard Fung, [...]
- Simon Gadke, Backup Camera
- Sarah Galea-Davis and Dave Derewlany, Safe at Home
- Alexandra Grimanis and Steven Woloshen, Try to Remain Calm
- John Greyson, Prurient
- Julia Hart and Samantha Kane, Solace
- Dana Inkster, Breakdown #29
- Ali Kazimi, Being & Birding in Pandemic Times
- Yuqi Kang, In This Moment
- Larry Kent, Short Film No. 6
- Taravat Khalili, The Garden
- Celeste Koon, An Isolated Day Full of Strange Isolated Events
- Elizabeth Lazebnik, I Want to Tell You Something
- Nadia Litz, Alphelion
- Rob Leickner, An Event
- Keith Lock, Lock Down
- Brenda Longfellow, Lockdown
- Jorge Lozano, X-Ray(s)
- Gabriela Macleod, Dirty Talk
- Anna Maguire, 29 Doors
- Asghar Massombagi, A Dream of Self Isolation
- Araya Mengesha, A Day for Love
- Ryan McKenna, Gerson Workout
- Noël Mitrani, To Limit the Spread
- Aaron Munson, A Time Out
- Solomon Nagler, Typhoid Aphorisms
- Justina Neepin, To Do List
- Kelly O'Brien, A Walk in the Park
- Ryan O'Toole, Cloud Elastic
- Emily Piggford, Greet Your Shadow
- John Price, Certain Uncertainties
- Matthew Rankin, A Grief Observed
- Lisa Rideout, Seeing Absence
- Mike Rollo, moments between moments
- Jeffrey St. Jules, Int. House - Day/Night
- Barbara Sternberg, Once I Am
- Shabnam Sukhdev, ...this instant
- Rolla Tahir, once there was once there wasn't
- Ho Tam, Isolation Journal
- Blaine Thurier, Sing, O Muse
- Gariné Torossian, To Make a Garden
- Ingrid Veninger, Dreams, Memories and Midges
- Daniel Warth, Panoramic Sleights
- Haya Waseem, Lahore Lunch
- JL Whitecrow, Bundle
- BH Yael, Isolation ABC
- Alan Zweig, On the Road
References[edit]
- ^ "Canadian filmmakers launch ‘Greetings from Isolation’ series of shorts". Canadian Press via the Toronto Star, May 12, 2020.
- ^ a b Norman Wilner, "Canadian directors are making films in self-isolation". Now, May 12, 2020.
- ^ "About the Collection". Greetings From Isolation. Retrieved 28 July 2020.