Directed by Michelle Elrick

Logline: A poet traces a labyrinth through heavy snow at dawn while reflecting on memory, time and the shifting nature of perspective.

Synopsis: Four years after its publication in her 2017 book, Then/Again, poet-director Michelle Elrick retraces the snowy walk at the heart of the book's anchor poem, only this time, she uncovers something new. As night fades under a brilliant pink, Atlantic dawn, her tracks cut deep into the centre of a snow-sculpted labyrinth. The lurid centre of indecision, where longing and regret once turned a woman to salt, is transformed into a meditative resting place.

Distribution Contact: WFG

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RUNTIME: 3 Minutes
GENRE: Poetry
PRODUCTION FORMAT: HD
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Nova Scotia
TECHNIQUES: Visual Effects
KEYWORDS: Labyrinth, Dawn, Memory, Time, Nova Scotia, Snow, Female Filmmaker

Director's Statement: The poem in this film references the philosopher Heraclitus, who famously said, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." It also references Lot's wife, who was turned to a pillar of salt for looking back at her burning hometown. The labyrinth sculpture which was constructed during filming is the classical nine-point seed labyrinth. The film was shot in one take, on snowy lawn referenced in the poem, in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq people. It was made with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.