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THE MAGNITUDE OF ALL THINGS

WONDERLANDS

Canada 2020, 86 min Director JENNIFER ABBOTT
Wildfires, floods, devastation, extinction: the gravity of our existential climate crisis becomes a deeply intimate rumination on both personal and global grief in Jennifer Abbott’s The Magnitude of All Things. Still reeling from the death of her sister from cancer, Abbott—who co-directed another DocLands feature, The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequelbegan tracing parallels between her experience of loss and the overwhelming shared sorrow of people on the frontlines of climate change. Through exquisite dream-like footage and letters and poems penned by her sister Saille, Abbot begins to make peace with grief, finding hope and beauty in the poignancy of moments shared. Refusing to be defeatist, Abbot’s powerful cinematic journey illustrates how deep acceptance of death and climate change provide profound lessons toward accepting life. With rich sound design and stunning photography, The Magnitude of All Things traverses the Earth in search of how we can turn grief into necessary action.

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DIRECTOR

JENNIFER ABBOTT is a Sundance Film Festival and Genie Award-winning filmmaker who has been making films about urgent social, political, and environmental issues for 25 years. She is best known as the co-director and editor of The Corporation, frequently described as the most successful documentary in Canadian history. She also co-directed, co-wrote, and edited Us & Them; co-wrote and edited Sea Blind; executive produced and edited I Am; and directed the short Brave New Minds, among other films. In 2020, Abbott released two feature documentaries: The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (co-directed with Joel Bakan) and The Magnitude of All Things.

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FILM INFO

COUNTRY:Canada
YEAR:2020
RUNNING TIME:86 min
LANGUAGE:English
DIRECTOR:Jennifer Abbott
PRODUCERS:
Andrew Williamson, Henrik Meyer, Shirley Vercruysse
CINEMATOGRAPHER:
Vince Arvidson
EDITOR:
Jennifer Abbott
PRINT SOURCE:
Flying Eye Productions
NOTE WRITER:
Cindy Lou Peeples