I Lost Sight of the Landscape

2025 / 85 minutes / Canada
Director: Sophie Bédard Marcotte
Writer: Sophie Bédard Marcotte
Language: French
Subtitles: English

Filmmaker Sophie Bédard Marcotte (L.A. Tea Time) takes us with her once again as she explores the act and art of creation. Her new film follows her neighbour, a theatre artist, as he creates a theatre piece inspired by the Greek myth of Sisyphus. What begins as a simple portrait of an artist and his creative process comes to mirror the myth; the film will begin over and over, as the filmmaker tries new ways to tell the story. And finds which story to tell. As we follow both artists, we find that life goes on, even as we stumble. Even when creation is put on hold by a global pandemic. Even as the lines between art and life begin to blur.

Following the development of the theatre performance, the filmmaker tracks the artist from the rocky terrain of Iceland to the pile of rocks delivered to the theatre. We witness moments other filmmakers would cut out: adjusting props for a candid shot, walking into her own film, talking about the making of the film. Though the format would suggest the filmmaker just doesn’t know where to start, by the end, we see that it doesn’t matter where the film begins. The story, like life, starts over and over in new ways. As they say: Life is what happens while we’re making other plans.

-Tish Black

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