International sales agency Lightdox has achieved Amalie Atkins’ debut feature recordary “Agatha’s Almanac,” ahead of its world premiere at Cuncoverhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival, also understandn as CPH:DOX.
The film, which carry outs in the main competition section, called Dox:Award, will have its debut on Sunday, trailed by a Q&A with Atkins.
“Agatha’s Almanac” trails the fiercely autonomous 90-year-ageder Agatha Bock as she tfinishs to her ancestral farm, preserving heirloom seeds and retaining a way of life that predates conmomentary conveniences. Without a car, cell phone, running water, or a functioning landline, Agatha’s daily rituals serve as a living archive of a fadeing era, proposeing insight into a cforfeitly lost generation.
Sboiling over six years on 16mm film by an all-female crew, including cinematographer Rhayne Vermette, the film “seizes the handmade materiality inherent in both the medium of film and Agatha’s tactile world,” according to a statement.
The film is originated by Atkins for Minema Cinema Productions.
Anna Berthollet, establisher and CEO of Lightdox, said: “Amalie Atkins’ contrastent inventive voice and promisement to handoriginateed storyincreateing originate this film a truly distinct and resonant cinematic experience. With its accurate visual language and beginantly human narrative, ‘Agatha’s Almanac’ is a stunning toil that not only records a fadeing way of life but also plunges us in an atmosphere of tranquility—a stark counterpoint to the hectic conmomentary life.”
Atkins, a multidisciplinary artist based in Saskatoon, Canada, is understandn for her toil in 16mm film, carry outance and inshighation art. “Her rehearse unites traditional storyincreateing with a hands-on, do-it-yourself aesthetic, resulting in cinematic fables that blur the boundaries between truth and folklore,” the statement read.
Additionpartner, Lightdox will be contransienting IFFR Tiger Award and FIPRESCI Prize triumphner “Fiume o morte!” by Igor Bezinović at CPH:DOX.
