Directed by Kent Tate

Logline: Worlds that have passed, worlds that are present, and worlds that are yet to be.

Synopsis: I generally gravitate towards places that reveal the many layers of time. This is when I like to imagine worlds that have passed, worlds that are present, and worlds that are yet to be.

Distribution Contact: WFG

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RUNTIME: 4 Minutes
GENRE: Experimental, Animation
PRODUCTION FORMAT: HD
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: British Columbia
TECHNIQUES: Computer Animation, Special Effects, Visual Effects
KEYWORDS: Ecology, Industrial, Natural World, Nature, Environment, Experimental

Director's Statement: Filmed by Kent Tate on location: Pipers lagoon, Departure Bay, Shack Island, Smugglers Hill, Nanaimo, British Columbia - Office Building, Abbotsford, British Columbia - Sentinel Industrial Park, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta - Crowsnest Mountain, Coleman, Alberta. Some of these locations are situated on the Ring of Fire, a basin in the Pacific Ocean, while others are situated on the Continental Divide of the Americas. Eighty Five million years ago all these areas were part of a vast global network of swampy marshes and low lying seas.Additional layered footage: Re-mixed animations from a late twentieth century human biology CD - Shadows of the alternate viewers next to their car parked at Reed Lake, Saskatchewan - Lighting strikes repeatedly at Reed Lake, Saskatchewan - Flaring gas tower at an oil refinery, Loydminster, Saskatchewan - De-comissioned grocery store parking lot, Chilliwack, British Columbia - Crowsnest Mountain in Alberta under the spell of the "Pacific Blob" during a long hot dry summer - Office towers in downtown Edmonton, Alberta - Ohia tree in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park caught on fire by Pèhoehoe lava - High altitude cloud with lens flare that I filmed above the Mauna Loa observatory (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory) on the Island of Hawaii - Rendering of the Monolith as I remember it from Arthur C. Clarke's “Space Odyssey series" - A silhouette of a lonely crow.