Plains
“A cinema vérité view into the lives of young couple developing MORPGs and VR games in a remote fishing town in rural Nova Scotia.”
2023•PG•1h 0m•Released
Documentary
Set in the sparsely populated lobster fishing villages of southern Nova Scotia, Plains is a cinema vérité approach to documenting the curious lives of Jon and Cat, a young couple who are developing politically left-leaning virtual reality video games. Against the busy backdrop of their art practice, we sit in on their quiet rural life, which, in its proximity to nature and the vast green and oceanic spaces that surround, echoes the romanticism of a simpler time. As the decaying world of physical labour and the mechanical industry faces up to an expanding digital empire, Jon gradually retreats into the alternative realities of his own design.
Director
Romanne Walker
Languages
English
Studio
Imglick
Cast
Jonathan Carroll
Himself
Cat Bluemke
Herself
Tommy Creaser
Himself
Albert Drake
Himself
Production
Company
Imglick
Company
St. Nick Productions
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