Jean-Philippe Marquis | CANADA | 80 min
In-partnership with OPIRG
Feature Film Screening: A poetic and intimate glimpse into the people, processes, and paradoxes of modern forestry practices, offering a sensorially immense contemplation on the entanglement of humans, machines, and nature, set amongst the sprawling forests of the Canadian Pacific Northwest.
Set amongst the rugged forests and shorelines of British Columbia, Silvicola offers a portrait of the complex web of cultural and economic forces which compel and constrain modern forestry practices. A story told through the eyes of an eclectic mix of characters whose lives and livelihoods are intimately entangled with the forest, exploring the tensions and dilemmas between commodification and conservation. Contemplative and sensorially immense, Silvicola embeds the viewer within remote spaces and worksites normally hidden from view, from the verdure of old growth canopies to the destructive gigantism of mechanical harvesting to the numbing rhythm of sapling nurseries.
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Jean-Philippe Marquis
Jean-Philippe Marquis is a documentary filmmaker and director of photography based in Bella Coola, British Columbia. He has ten years of cinematography experience on documentaries and television series. As a director, his documentary work is often non-linear, and dwells on themes of contested geographies and resource extraction. He has made short films in Palestine, Congo-Kinshasa, and Cameroon, and has filmed extensively throughout the Yukon and Western Canada.
