Directed by Michelle Elrick

Logline: A poet constructs 'home' through blanket forts, collected sounds and a new, original poem.

Synopsis: Poet Michelle Elrick approaches "home" through blanket forts, poetry and collected sounds in this stark and beautiful film from the Canadian prairie. "expect something and nothing at once" follows the poet from the stillness of a room to the windswept, late-Autumn field where she struggles to recreate the essence of home.

Distribution Contact: WFG

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RUNTIME: 4 Minutes
GENRE: Experimental, Narrative, Fiction
PRODUCTION FORMAT: HD
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Nova Scotia
KEYWORDS: Notes From The Fort, Winnipeg, Fort, Poetry, Sense Of Place, Blanket Forts, Fabric, Female Filmmaker

Director's Statement: This film is part of the larger project Notes from the Fort: a poetic of inhabited space, a series of performance installations that create intimate places in unfamiliar environments through the play-act of fort building.