Utopia

The purpose of this or that, or its role in enabling a sense of security or status is ephemeral, depending on factors that may or may not be readily apparent. As systems shift from one emphasis to an other, or as one system supplants an other, the meaning of something can be altered to such a degree that a new description may be required to understand its context. Various intersections in downtown Vancouver including the Trump Tower looming over the other buildings – Fishing Boat approaches Ucluelet after some time out at sea – Afternoon clouds, Crowsnest Mountain – Lonely Industrial Park in need of tenants, Calm winds in Crowsnest Valley – Deer resting on a cliff near Nanaimo – Inter-Dimensional collision of a city, a mountain, and a deer – The outer edge of a severe thunderstorm, Drumheller Valley – Jelly fish and other types of fish in the Monterey Aquarium – Early Sunday morning in Central City, Surrey, Shack Island at high tide in Pipers Lagoon – A corporate logo is removed from a decomissioned box store in the Fraser Valley – Low clouds drift over Halemaumau Crater – Erupting lava flow reaches the Pacific ocean on the Island of Hawaii – Shipping containers neatly stacked at Duke Point. Filmed on location by Kent Tate: Vancouver, Surrey, Abbotsford, Ucluelet and Nanaimo in British Columbia – The Crowsnest Pass and Drumheller Valley in Alberta – Hawaii Volcanoes NP, Hawaii – Monterey, California.

Film Maker
Tate, Kent
Year
2017
Country
Canada
Length
3
Category
Abstraction, Anthropocene, Architecture, Canada, Capitalism + Economics, Earth, Ecology, environment, Geography, Nature, Portraits, Science Fiction, Time + Space
Genre
Animation, documentary, experimental, Installation, short