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We left Park Lane motel this morning, our first stop was Maple Creek, on route we stopped at a tourist information centre and spoke to two lovely women about ‘Land of the living sky’ … we then headed down Highway 13 and found our first house.
We stopped for dinner in Jack’s Cafe (Greek owned) and enjoyed chatting to the staff.
Getting ready for our screening with friends, looking back at the start of the journey!
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Delighted chosen as a semi-finalist!
Great weekend getting printed material ready for Sheffield Doc Fest. Still finalising the website. So excited Ghost Towns will be available to watch on Doc/Player during the festival (and after for a limited time)
May 13th 3.15PM
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We have just heard that our film will also be available for delegates at Sheffield Doc/Fest on the Doc/Player. Hopefully this will lead to further distribution for 2017 but the documentary will be AVAILABLE for all to see later in the year x
Lovely to see our documentary trailer being shared! and receiving lots of love!
Ghost Towns explores abandoned properties and ghost towns along Highway 13 in Saskatchewan, Canada. The remains of these towns tell important stories, both a...
For more information on the documentary!
NorthwestFest International Documentary & Media Arts Festival from May 5-14, 2017
Screening SATURDAY MAY 13, 2017 in EDMONTON ALBERTA | CANADA
Very excited just been accepted for the Winter Selection.
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Day 702
Hello world. It’s been a long, long time since our last post. Since day 11 of filming we have spent the last 691 days editing. And we think it’s been worth it! Linda and I have been tucked away in a bunker pouring over our files, editing, grading and working with our composer. We didn’t quite expect it to take this long, but like some of the ghost towns themselves, this has been a project long in the making. Despite life and work getting in the way we have made steady progress and in recent months the project has really come together. We are just polishing up the final audio and moving onto the next stage: EXHIBITION!!! Stay tunes... #ghosttownscanada
Some more pictures from the trip :)
The outline for the project...
Since finishing the filming, we have been putting together a project outline. A project outline is a short document that describes the aims of the film. So, if you're wondering what hell this film will be about, this post is for you. This is what we've come up with...
Project Outline
A Town Called Forget and Other Tales of Abandonment (working title)
A Town Called Forget and Other Tales of Abandonment explores abandoned properties and ghost towns along Highway 13 in Saskatchewan, Canada. There are approximately 32 ghost towns located on and around the highway and each exists in a particular state of decay: from small homesteads in the middle of discarded farmland to the remnants of town centres, with their crumbling churches, grocery stores and grain elevators. The remains of these towns tell important stories, both about the individuals who made their lives in these places, but also about a wider history of immigration and industry.
Being present in an abandoned place is an intimate and ghostly experience. From a shirt on a coat hanger gently swaying in the breeze to a bottle of aspirin on a kitchen counter, abandoned places offer a glimpse of a past that feels tantalisingly close. They hold intimate details of past lives, scrapbooks and photo albums scattered amongst broken glass and rotting furniture. Yet, the abandoned places of Saskatchewan hold a connection to a history that is quietly fading away. The aim of A Town Called Forget and Other Tales of Abandonment is to present the wider story of Saskatchewan through the specific portraits of these abandoned places before they disappear completely.
The film will comprise of recording of abandoned places and a variety of interviews with people who live in the remaining towns along the highway. The style of filmmaking aims to evoke the sensation of being present in these abandoned places: their ‘ghostliness’, where the past feels immediate and yet hidden from view. Slow mobile camera shots will move through the outhouses, school halls and homes, while close-up cinematography will draw attention to significant objects as they slowly decay. The subtle sound-score aims to harness the stillness of the Saskatchewan’s landscape by using the audio recordings gathered on-location.
In conjunction with this material, a variety of interviews with people who live along the highway will help to uncover the stories behind these places. Ranging from people who once lived in now-abandoned towns, to local historians, to newly arrived immigrants to Canada, these interviews will draw on a wide range of perspectives. Questions about the towns themselves will be woven into the broader story of Saskatchewan: the general decline of its population from the middle of the 20th Century (despite a land mass twice the size of the UK’s Saskatchewan now has a population of only one million) and the resulting questions about its place in an increasingly urbanised world.
Through the visual and audio material the film will seek to engage with several key questions: Who were the people that lived in these abandoned places? Why did they leave? Why did certain towns perish? Is there any interest in preserving these places? The film’s answer to these questions will be rooted in the exploration of the abandoned places. And while the film will attempt to provide thorough answers, it will do so in a way that expresses the inherent sense of mystery that envelope such places. Ghost towns only offer a fragmented view of the past and are defined as much by what is absent as by whatever artefacts that remain.
The town of Forget is one of the main anchors for the film and will serve as a way of bringing together the abiding themes of the project. Forget is an interesting microcosm of Saskatchewan: despite being almost completely abandoned its population of roughly twenty is trying to carve out a future for the town. While the other recorded places and interviews will engage with places that have been abandoned, Forget’s future is uncertain. As a place is a state of flux, the issues of abandonment can therefore be seen from a new and revealing perspective.
The abandoned towns of Saskatchewan are time capsules: offering glimpses of personal and collective histories that are fading from memory. As well as illuminating the history of Saskatchewan, the material has resonance on a wider scale: how we remember and connect to our pasts through the places and objects we leave behind. Through the lyrical style of filmmaking, one that expresses the melancholic beauty of these abandoned places, A Town Called Forget and Other Tales of Abandonment is a story about Saskatchewan and the way we remember and relate to the past.
A day to chill in the natural beauty that is Banff National Park. We switched our camera to auto modes and became fully fledged tourists for the day!
After visiting Lake Minnewanka we cleaned up the hire car (we’ve called her Sandy), said our goodbyes and gave her back to the man at Avis. We enjoyed the ‘best burger in Banff’ and then chilled around the town for a few hours.
We discovered that we drove a total of 3389 km!!! (2105 miles) further than London to Moscow! We now just have a chilled night in Banff and then let the coach driver take us back to Vancouver! what an adventure :-) Post production here we come!!!!!!!!!
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We left Saskatchewan today as we travelled back to Banff. It was a sad sight to leave Saskatchewan behind, but we have had a fab couple of weeks and we’re confident we have the material to create a fascinating film. As we worked our way back into Alberta, the flat prairies started rippling into small hills and, eventually large, jagged mountains. The contrast to Saskatchewan was quite a shock and made the grandeur of the scenery even more impressive. We finished our journey by heading to Lake Louise, which was an extremely picturesque and reflective place to end our day’s travels. Linda’s animal watch: I saw a beautiful owl from the motel this morning. It was very still and I managed to get some stunning shots. Linda (jealous) was convinced it wasn’t real. How mean is that? I’ll upload the photo for you to decide. Tomorrow: we’re going on a bear hunt!
Linda and I are now safely nestled back in the metropolis of Vancouver, aplomb with its coffee shops, salad bars and vintage clothing. Linda travels back to the UK tomorrow so we thought this would be a nice opportunity for some first reflections of our trip and to look ahead the post-production phase of the project. Here are our highlights/observations:1. First arriving in Saskatchewan. Seeing the expanse of the sky in front of us was truly magnificent. I fully understand why the tourist board describe it as ‘The Land of the Living Skies’. 2. The second property we viewed was incredible. It was like walking into the past. The dry climate has meant that the home was incredibly well preserved. 3. Seeing nature slowly engulf the electrical appliances was a reminder that life always continues with or without people. 4. The jar of aspirin. It made us think about the person who last used the bottle.These objects connected us to a past that felt tantalisingly close and yet hidden from view. 5. We feel privileged that the buildings were still so accessible to us and that, on the whole, very few of the places had been vandalised. 6. Saskatechewan is often talked down. Many of the people we’ve met, especially in BC, consider it flat and boring; a place people drive through on their way to somewhere else. Hopefully this project will show the hidden treasures that this quiet and tranquil province has to offer. 7. The people were almost all lovely and very welcoming. They always had time to chat with us and were very supportive of the project. A special thanks to Nick from Eastend for giving up an entire day to be our tour guide. 8. Saskatchewan has a rich and vibrant history, much of it has been abandoned. Despite the efforts of some of the people we have met, the stories of the abandoned places continue to fade. Having the chance to go and record some of the sights and sounds of these places therefore seems like an important task. In our own small way, the film will preserve some of these stories.We now move onto thinking about what to do with our footage! We think the material we’ve collected tells an important tale about Saskatewan; how it thrived in the early part of the 20th century, slowly faded as people moved away and now, in the midst of an oil boom and immigration influx, has a potentially promising future. The material also (we believe) has resonance on a wider level: how we remember and connect to our pasts. The abandoned towns of Saskatchewan are time capsules: offering glimpses of personal and collective histories that have been discarded. All of which, we hope you’ll agree, should lead to a fascinating film. We’ll continue to update this blog as the project grows. Please feel free to contact us at [email protected]
