NFB’s Far Away from Far Away wants to take you on a Fogo Island vacation, via your phone

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Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, Far Away is intended to show that your phone can be the site of deep and lingering media experiences

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.No surprise that people whose ancestors named their villages Joe Batt’s Arm or Seldom Come By have a way with words. Storytelling is a strong tradition in Newfoundland.

is intended to show that your phone can be the site of deep and lingering media experiences. It begins with a fascinating tale – the true story of Zita Cobb’s Newfoundland girlhood before she founded the Fogo Island Inn, a luxury hotel and artists’ colony – and illustrates it with video. Call it up on your smartphone , and it proves gently interactive. You can swipe your way through short videos or, in a few instances, press on one image to find a second hidden video emerging like meltwater.

The project tells the story of Zita Cobb, an entrepreneur who grew up on Fogo Island and eventually founded the Fogo Island Inn.In this multimedia piece directed by Bruce Alcock and Jeremy Mendes and filmed on Fogo by Justin Simms, it’s the layered videos that are often the most poetic. A fishing shed shown at night gives way to a heaven full of stars; a human eye dissolves to reveal the eye of a fisherman’s very last cod.

The lilting tones and strong stresses of actress Ruby Joy do full justice to these arresting stories. In the end, for all its pleasing bells and whistles, you could just listen toTo view Far Away from Far Away, access

 

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