FLORA BOREALIS
POST PRODUCTION
Flora Borealis tells two stories about our troubled relationship to the natural world.
The first is a story of renewal in a darkened future, a tale of queer love and a chance for redemption as two men, Pat and Theo, struggle with depression in a ruined environment.
Theo knows they need to make a radical break with the past and start over somewhere new, but Pat feels this effort is hopeless. To buoy Pat, Theo tells him a story.
The story Theo tells is one of the past, of loss and hubris, of art and science, of knowledge and morality, as a botanical glassblower mourns his dead wife. Haunted by her memory, he seeks solace in nature, which leads him on a fantastic journey.
The two tales weave together, as both Pat and the glassblower struggle to find hope in despair and appreciate the beauty of nature.
Flora Borealis was generously funded through a fellowship at the Jacob Burns Film Center, as well as through Kickstarter, where it was featured as a Project We Love. The film also includes 3d scans taken of Harvard’s Ware Collection of Glass Flowers, taken with the support of the Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Graduate School of Design.
Stills from Flora Borealis
