To: Hope, From: Here
30 min., super 8/16mm, 2009
To: Hope, From: Here is a 30min hybrid dramatic/documentary/diaristic black & white analog video about searching for meaning, purpose and belonging in a landscape, a city, and a home. It follows the story of a twenty-five year old woman living on the edge of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who feels increasingly alienated by pre-Olympic gentrification. Her fate takes a turn when she finds a travel brochure promoting 'Experience Hope'. On her road trip to locate Hope BC along Hwy #1 she learns about the gothic history of the West Coast's settlement and development through adventures at the Fraser River, Fort Langley, and the Vancouver Zoo. Cut with Super 8 and video archival footage of significant Vancouver news events and landscape cinematography, the video is a contemporary historical document of a culture that is soon to be forgotten.