Island News & Views
General · 28th March 2009
Friday Flicks
Friday Flicks is back in the saddle on Sunday, March 29 at 7pm. The Flicks team jumped at an opportunity to show this very special movie while it's in the neighbourhood. The subject of the film, Stephen Jenkinson, will be present for discussion time after the movie.
GRIEFWALKER is a film about death and how our Western culture lives in denial of it. The film is an extraordinary, provocative and personal portrait of palliative caregiver Stephen Jenkinson. Jenkinson is a Harvard-trained theologian whose substantial learning has taken him away from Western religion and toward those elemental beliefs held by older, aboriginal cultures. For Jenkinson death is not to be denied, avoided, or compartmentalized. It is to be embraced and the community experience it once was.
Filmmaker Tim Wilson admits that the quiet, exquisitely framed and scored GRIEFWALKER affects viewers "like a slow detonation." And so it should. In direct contradiction of the mantra of our times, the goal isn't success, personal growth or happiness. In fact, without the acknowledgement that, "The cradle of our love for life is death," we may never fully embrace life.
This is a must see movie for anyone working in or working through loss as well as anyone wanting to live life more fully.
PLEASE NOTE SHOWTIME – this is NOT our regular film start time. GRIEFWALKER will start at *7PM* to leave room for discussion with Stephen Jenkinson after the movie.
GRIEFWALKER is a film about death and how our Western culture lives in denial of it. The film is an extraordinary, provocative and personal portrait of palliative caregiver Stephen Jenkinson. Jenkinson is a Harvard-trained theologian whose substantial learning has taken him away from Western religion and toward those elemental beliefs held by older, aboriginal cultures. For Jenkinson death is not to be denied, avoided, or compartmentalized. It is to be embraced and the community experience it once was.
Filmmaker Tim Wilson admits that the quiet, exquisitely framed and scored GRIEFWALKER affects viewers "like a slow detonation." And so it should. In direct contradiction of the mantra of our times, the goal isn't success, personal growth or happiness. In fact, without the acknowledgement that, "The cradle of our love for life is death," we may never fully embrace life.
This is a must see movie for anyone working in or working through loss as well as anyone wanting to live life more fully.
PLEASE NOTE SHOWTIME – this is NOT our regular film start time. GRIEFWALKER will start at *7PM* to leave room for discussion with Stephen Jenkinson after the movie.