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Land of Not Knowing

Country: Canada, Language: English, 71 mins

  • Director: Steve Sanguedolce
  • Producer: Steve Sanguedolce

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Read the blurb...

This is an intense experience. For too many people, suicide is a constant companion...to many, that companionship is incomprehensible. Steve Sanguedolce has tried [and partially succeeded] in highlighting the demons that some people carry around with them.

It's a challenging film...and, it's a sad film.

#EIFF2017


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The(ir) Blurb...

In this bold new experimental documentary by Toronto's Steve Sanguedolce, four artists talk about suicide: the role the recurring thought has played in their life and art, the struggle to understand and overcome the impulse, and the ongoing confrontation with a form of stigma that renders the very concept of suicide as a kind of pariah even among mental health issues and discussions. With a frankness that is both bracing and illuminating, Sanguedolce's subjects tell their stories, and the filmmaker responds with a striking visual scheme that permits us something rarely attempted in the engagement with this most misunderstood of conditions: a sense of first person understanding.

Cast & Characters

Mike Hoolboom as Himself;
Maria De Sanctis as Emily Vey Duke;
Lulu Hazel Turnbull as Megan Berg;
Marina Black as Herself;
Vivien Kiss as Marina Black;
Emily Vey Duke;
Megan Berg