IN THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS
Just before conditions on Planet Earth became unsuitable for human life, a small group of children received a message from a faraway galaxy: an ancient civilization’s plea for notes describing life on Planet Earth. In The Garden of Forking Paths is made from all that is left of those notes.
‑ Paul R. Sell (The Spokesman-Review)
“exceptionally beautiful, commanding to watch. Invoke[s] the cinematic tradition of faith in the image, convincing the viewer to invest in what they see.”
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“[A] formally inventive and philosophically engaged realization of a collaborative ethos that still retain the capacity to surprise and delight—a difficult balance to achieve.”
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“[The directors have] eliminated the common subject-object dichotomy that dominates much of the film world (and much of the world).”
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“Astute in the stream of consciousness assemblage as its own form and deconstruction of conventional echo-ethnography methods”
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“The film is an exercise in yielding. [The directors] yield space to the children’s keen grasp of their region and its human and nonhuman inhabitants, their knowledge of First Nations stories and mythologies, and perhaps most importantly, to their profound sense of ecological justice. Formally, too, the decision to invite the children to film with omnidirectional cameras […] produces an aesthetic of yielding.”
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Made with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Créé avec le soutien du Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Humaines du Canada
Awards and honours
2022 Best Experimental Film Award. Gully International Film Festival, Bihar, India
Honorable Mention - Experimental Film, Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, Mannheim, Germany
Best Experimental Feature Film, Bettiah International Film Festival, Bettiah, India
Best Experimental Feature Film Bronze Award, International Smyrna Movie Festival, Izmir, Turkey
Best Documentary Film Special Jury Award, Mokkho International Film Festival, Pondicherry, India
Best Experimental Film Award, Rameshwaram International Film Festival, Chennai, India
Best Feature Documentary Cinematography, Wallachia International Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Best Experimental Film Award, Jaisalmer International Film Festival, Jaisalmer, India
Best Documentary Award, Falcon International Film Festival, London, UK
Best Experimental Film Award, Gangtok International Film Festival, Gangtok, India
Best Experimental Film Award, Cine Paris Film Festival, Paris, France
Best Documentary Feature Film Award, Tamizhagam International Film Festival, Chennai, India
Best Experimental Feature Award, Nawada International Film Festival, Nawada, India
Best Experimental Film Award, Wales International Film Festival, Swansea, UK
Best Documentary Feature Film Award, Sittannavasal International Film Festival, Karaiyur, India
Nominee, Best Experimental Film Award, Swedish International Film Festival, Arvika, Sweden
Best Experimental Film Award, Tagore International Film Festival, Birbhum, India
Nominee, Best Documentary Feature Film Award, Brighton Rocks Film Festival, Brighton, UK
Best Environment/Nature Film Award, Athvikvaruni International Film Festival, Aranthanki, India
Best Experimental Feature Award, Best Poster Award, South Film and Arts Academy Festival, Rancagua, Chile
Best Experimental Film Award, Sundarban International Film Festival, Kolkata, India
2021 Outstanding Achievement Award - Experimental Film, Druk International Film Festival, Paro, Bhutan
Screenings (selected)
2023 Chambal International Film Festival, Kota, India
2022 International Moving Film Festival, Abadan, Iran
Bettiah International Film Festival, Bettiah, India
Switzerland International Film Festival, Aubonne, Switzerland
Gully International Film Festival, Bihar, India.
Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, Mannheim, Germany
Luleå International Film Festival, Luleå, Sweden
Mokkho International Film Festival, Pondicherry, India
Rameshwaram International Film Festival, Chennai, India
Wallachia International Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
International Smyrna Movie Festival, Izmir, Turkey
Tamizhagam International Film Festival, Chennai, India
Nawada International Film Festival, Nawada, India
Sittannavasal International Film Festival, Karaiyur, India
South Film and Arts Academy Festival, Rancagua, Chile
Athvikvaruni International Film Festival, Aranthanki, India
Wales International Film Festival, Swansea, UK
Sundarban International Film Festival, Kolkata, India
Boden International Film Festival, Boden, Sweden
VIZANTROP Engaged Ethnographic Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
Jaisalmer International Film Festival, Jaisalmer, India
Falcon International Film Festival, London, UK
Cine Paris Film Festival, Paris, France
Gangtok International Film Festival, Gangtok, India
Swedish International Film Festival, Arvika, Sweden
International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra, Ierapetra, Greece
Tagore International Film Festival, Birbhum, India
Brighton Rocks Film Festival, Brighton, UK
Darbhanga International Film Festival, Darbhanga, India
Filmfest Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spokane International Film Festival, Spokane, WA, USA
Bayamón International Film Festival, Bayamón, Puerto Rico
2021 Muestra de Antropología Audiovisual de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Cannes World Film Festival, Cannes, France
Druk International Film Festival, Paro, Bhutan