Everything Everywhere Again Alive

1975

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 80%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 13 13

Plot summary

In the early 1970s, Toronto filmmaker Keith Lock moved to Buck Lake, where members of the Toronto art scene were undertaking an experiment in communal living. Lock filmed the achievements and daily rituals of his fellow communards, his camera bearing witness as a community assembled and dispersed. The resulting film uses poetic strategies, including logograms and other graphic disruptions, to extend its themes of renewal and rebirth, and to mark the encounter between reason and imagination, the concrete and the abstract. A landmark work of Canadian underground cinema, a film diary with mystic and symbolic overtones.

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Keith Lock

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720p.BluRay
660.76 MB
1280*932
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 12 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 4 / 10

A 1970s style 'Walden'?

Experiments in communal living were alive and kicking in the early 1970s, including at Buck Lake, in Ontario, Canada. And to prove it filmmaker Keith Lock took his camera and filmed some of his friends and their day to day activities at Buck Lake - collecting water, chopping wood - in what looks like an amateur home movie. It's what might be described as an experimental feature length documentary film (shot from 1972 to 1973) ,and featuring a number of things which draw attention to itself as a film, such as overlay text, numbers and markings on screen, and all made using 'short ends' (ie. Film left overs). Seeking to 'break down the barrier between subject and audience' Lock precedes to hum, breath as well as narrate his account of this 70s style 'Walden'.
Reviewed by 10 / 10

A Landmark Work of Canadian Underground Cinema

Keith Lock's mesmeric pastoral diary film Everything Everywhere Again Alive... Lock shot the film in the early 70s during a period in which he lived at Buck Lake, Ontario, as part of a commune of artists who built and maintained a homestead in the wilderness, inspired by the back to the land movement. The film captures the progress of their project as they erect buildings, till the land, wrangle animals and reconnect with a natural world that modern society has largely discarded or consumed. It is perhaps in the avant-garde flourishes found in unusual sound design, intermittent colour fields and the presence of patterns and hieroglyphs imposed on the images that the film's ritualistic undertones are made manifest. - Sight and SoundScreenings and Awards: "One of the best Canadian Films of the nineteen seventies", Image and Identity Selected one of "100 Best Canadian Films of All Time" by Jim Shedden, 2019 Blu-Ray release Black Zero releasing, 2022 UW-Milwaukee, Milwaukee Union Cinema, 2024 DIM Cinema, Vancouver Cinemateque, 2023 Ad Hoc film screenings, Innis Town Hall, Toronto, 2021 Early Monthly Segments, Toronto, 2015 Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, Canadian Retrospective, 1984; Art Gallery of Ontario, 1986 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, 1979 Pacific Cinematheque, 1975 Many screenings at independent film venues, Canadian universities, college.
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