Geographies of Solitude

• Jacquelyn Mills
• 103 min
• Canada
• 2022
• Documentary

Melancholic, poetic, and completely irresistible about the conservationist Zoe Lucas who for forty years has lived alone on the strip of sand called Sable Island far away from everything out in the Atlantic.

190 miles (300 kilometers) southeast of the coast of Nova Scotia lies a saber-shaped island of sand populated by wild horses, seals, birds, insects – and the self-taught conservationist and environmental activist Zoe Lucas. Settling here was not something she actually chose. She just happened to get left there and has now lived the larger part of her life alone on the isolated island. Her cataloguing of species and populations is rigorously detailed, and her relationship to the ecosystem in which she lives is of a kind rarely seen. At times she gets visitors, like when the filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills comes with their 16-millimeter camera and in harmony with the island’s unique environment creates an artistic portrait of a fascinating place, person, and way of life.

- Johan Blomqvist

• Kontemplation
• Natur
• Dokumentär
• Miljö