Seven Persons

--Description taken from "Seven Persons"-- Seven Persons is a lyrical meditation that explores landscape, origin, identity and compromise in the rural prairies of Southern Alberta. Cinematically weaving together the story of a conflicted 1880's Metis surveyor that makes a haunting discovery that eventually leads to the naming of the hamlet of Seven Persons and a ten-year-old urban boy in 1990 whose innocence is challenged while on a visit to the family farm. The stories are interlaced within a portrait of the land they share and an area called Seven Persons. Based on various mythologies of the origin and naming of Seven Persons as well as the childhood memories of the filmmaker, the film sets out to create a dreamlike enigma where environmental tones resonate within the main characters, merging notions of past and present. The film is an experiential work using traditional narrative devices played out in an interpretive way. The film tries to challenge the audience with the absence of an overt plot and invites them to engage with the images that feel familiar at once and yet haunting at the same time.