ARCHIPELAGO

Finally seeing the light of day, ARCHIPELAGO, four short films exploring moments in the peopling of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland’s once widely settled archipelago, using animation, film, photography and maps to find a window into the way back.

Cinematography by DOP Nigel Markham, Animation by Bruce Alcock, Written, directed and edited by Rosemary House.

Produced with the financial support of Canada Council for the Arts and NL Arts Council

For one thing, the colors are much more distinct in SoHo. They’re brighter. Perhaps that’s a reflection on the people living here. But for many of the cast-iron buiildings that give SoHo it’s unmistakable character, the reason for their bright coloring is actually pretty obvious: whenever you construct anything from wrought iron, it’s going to look like, well, wrought iron.

So the colors of SoHo as they’re known, or at least as they ought to be known, the colors that are just a street photographers dream come true (where else can you find so many amazing backdrops?), are actually the result of many, many coats of bright paints. And they light up a photo in ways even a flash cannot.