Prairie Grizzly’s Peneplain

“Prairie Grizzly’s Peneplain” is a meditation on various natural and manufactured landscapes in southern Saskatchewan. This region is part of an ancient Precambrian seabed rebounding from the last Ice Age which once had a dynamic range of wildlife, plants, and wetlands supporting various ancient cultures that flourished here for millennia. Up until the late 1800‘s the Prairie Grizzly thrived on the Canadian Prairies. The bears that managed to migrate further west to the Rocky Mountains faced a difficult transition, although they have managed to survive in their new homes. Along with the plains buffalo, the have become a presence in the past, a story from an other era.

Film Maker
Tate, Kent
Year
2020
Country
Canada
Length
10
Language
English
Category
Animals, Anthropocene, Canada, Capitalism + Economics, Earth, Ecology, environment, Geography
Genre
Animation, documentary, experimental, Installation, short