In an increasingly urban nation, Canada’s national parks are a treasured escape into extraordinary beauty and rugged wilderness. If the Group of Seven were an introduction to the landscape’s majesty, National Parks Project is the next logical chapter. Fifty-two contemporary artists from across the country, whose talents are as diverse as the parks they set out to explore, used their surroundings as a source of inspiration to blend musical and cinematic skills into collaboratively crafted vignettes. Epic in its ambition to celebrate these locales during Parks Canada’s centennial year, this omnibus film resonates with the knowledge that our unprotected land is more vulnerable than ever. Including films by Zacharius Kunuk, Peter Lynch, Sturla Gunnarsson and John Walker, and music by Sarah Harmer, Sam Roberts, Cadence Weapon and The Besnard Lakes, among many others, National Parks Project is a one-of-a-kind documentary experience.

日本文豪谷崎润一郎的作品《阴翳礼赞》描写了没有电灯时代的日本美学——日式生活与自然相融合的“风雅”之趣。在他看来，西方人尽可能将房间的角角落落都点亮，最大程度地消除阴影的存在。与此相对，日本人往往会特意保留阴翳的存在，并且善于在阴翳中创造艺术。导演凯瑟琳·马丁的这部纪录片如同文学作品一样，分为三个章节。谷崎的《阴翳礼赞》、光线与黑暗、摄影和电影的起源都交织在这三章的“电影冥想”中，转瞬即逝的阴影在光线中起伏流动。这部电影捕捉和试图探究的，正是这种独特的美感。这是一种迷人的梦境，它反映了我们在世界上的位置、时间的流逝、生命的本质及其脆弱性。

a teenage girl who flees an unbearable home life for the rugged beauty of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula.