The Wild Within
222 E Superior St
Duluth, Minnesota 55802
United States
Duluth, Minnesota 55802
United States
The Wild Within
This compelling shorts program weaves together a diverse collection of shorts that capture the profound connections between people and the natural world. From the icy wilderness of the Boundary Waters to the swamps of the American South, each film offers a unique perspective on the beauty, challenges, and urgent needs of our environment. This program journeys through personal and collective battles for conservation, celebrates the intricacies of ecosystems, and highlights the intimate, transformative experiences that unfold in the wild. Through these stories, viewers gain insight into the landscapes and lives at the edge of nature’s wonder and fragility.
This compelling shorts program weaves together a diverse collection of shorts that capture the profound connections between people and the natural world. From the icy wilderness of the Boundary Waters to the swamps of the American South, each film offers a unique perspective on the beauty, challenges, and urgent needs of our environment. This program journeys through personal and collective battles for conservation, celebrates the intricacies of ecosystems, and highlights the intimate, transformative experiences that unfold in the wild. Through these stories, viewers gain insight into the landscapes and lives at the edge of nature’s wonder and fragility.
Birds of Paradise
Alison Világ counts migrating waterbirds at Whitefish Point Bird Observatory, near Paradise, Michigan. It's key to getting a pulse on different populations. But counting birds is more than just science – it's an escape for her. Despite the harsh, often windy and cold conditions at Whitefish Point, Alison is always sad when migration season is over because she never wants to leave this place. It's her paradise.
A co-production between Points North podcast and The Boardman Review.
A co-production between Points North podcast and The Boardman Review.
9 minutes
Water Over Nickel
Water Over Nickel is an initiative by the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and allied organizations to protect Minnesota’s people, natural resources, and cultural sites from the negative impact of nickel mining.
Our efforts are grounded in our commitment to preserve Minnesota’s natural environment and water resources for generations to come.
Our efforts are grounded in our commitment to preserve Minnesota’s natural environment and water resources for generations to come.
4 minutes
A Line in the Snow
A Line in the Snow follows professional arctic explorer Annie Aggens and her two daughters on a dog sledding winter camping trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The group learns valuable life and wilderness skills in one of the most pristine wilderness areas in the world, powered only by their own two feet and a team of four-legged friends. With multiple trips to the North Pole, South Pole, Greenland, and Svalbard on her resume, Annie is embarking on one of her greatest adventures yet: motherhood.
14 minutes
The Cicadian Rhythm
Lying just below the surface, billions of six-legged creatures claw their way through the soil for a once-in-a-lifetime emergence. This May, cicadas take center stage, covering the Chicagoland area. As locals itch at the not-so-phantom feeling of bugs crawling across their skins, the red-eyed beauty turns out to be one girl's muse. The Cicadian Rhythm follows Nina Salem, founder of The Insect Asylum, as she prepares for the historic event. Combining science and art, Salem and hundreds of artists paint the town (and larger-than-life plaster cicadas) red. As Salem’s love for the creatures rubs off on the artists, plaster and living cicadas, forever transform the lives they touch.
10 minutes
Parallel Botany
Still lives of real fruit meet botanical illustrations of plant galls to expose the paradox of dissection: each time we cut something in two, we merely create a new exterior.
11 minutes
