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May Flowers captures one month in the life of Toronto during pandemic times, amidst Covid’s third and deadliest wave, just as the city is about to emerge from one of the longest emergency lockdowns in the world.
Filmed in May 2021, May Flowers unfolds through a moving collection of encounters with a cross-section of the city’s residents. Out of the telling of their stories, and strategies for coping, what emerges is a portrait of a city at a turning point—a city, like so many others, riven with uncertainty about the future, and a fraying sense of trust in institutions and each other.
By turns funny and sad, peculiar and melancholy, May Flowers also reflects on the strangeness of how we experienced time and memory during the pandemic, and asks whether the most memorable period in most of our lives will somehow elude our remembering.
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May Flowers
106 mins / 2024 / Canada
Directed, produced, and written by Chris Frey and Patrick Pittman
Camera and editing: Chris Frey
Sound recording and mixing: Patrick Pittman
Narration: Naomi Skwarna
Music: Bram Gielen
Colour: Zach Cox
Graphic art: Michèle Champagne
May Flowers captures one month in the life of Toronto during pandemic times, amidst Covid’s third and deadliest wave, just as the city is about to emerge from one of the longest emergency lockdowns in the world.
Filmed in May 2021, May Flowers unfolds through a moving collection of encounters with a cross-section of the city’s residents. Out of the telling of their stories, and strategies for coping, what emerges is a portrait of a city at a turning point—a city, like so many others, riven with uncertainty about the future, and a fraying sense of trust in institutions and each other.
By turns funny and sad, peculiar and melancholy, May Flowers also reflects on the strangeness of how we experienced time and memory during the pandemic, and asks whether the most memorable period in most of our lives will somehow elude our remembering.
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May Flowers
106 mins / 2024 / Canada
Directed, produced, and written by Chris Frey and Patrick Pittman
Camera and editing: Chris Frey
Sound recording and mixing: Patrick Pittman
Narration: Naomi Skwarna
Music: Bram Gielen
Colour: Zach Cox
Graphic art: Michèle Champagne