Keith Lock
Everything Everywhere Again Alive
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Add rightsFormat Blu-ray Interzone
Original format 16mm
Year 1975
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Keith Lock
Running time 135 min
Films
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE AGAIN ALIVE (1975) 72'
RETURN TO BUCK LAKE (2021) 36'
GOING (1975) 5'
CHANGING SEASONS: THE CANADIAN PASTORAL IN KEITH LOCK'S EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE AGAIN ALIVE by Stephen Broomer (2022) 22'
Description
Everything Everywhere Again Alive is a landmark work of Canadian underground cinema, a film diary with mystical and symbolic overtones. In the early 1970s, Toronto filmmaker Keith Lock relocated to Buck Lake, where members of Toronto's art scene were engaged in an experiment in communal living. Lock filmed the daily achievements and rituals of his companions, his camera bearing witness to the formation and eventual dispersal of the community. The resulting film adopts poetic strategies—logograms and other graphic ruptures—to extend its themes of renewal and rebirth, and to mark the encounter between reason and imagination, the concrete and the abstract.