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Trout Lake Lament

A study in form; human, celluloid, sound. A young woman climbs trees and explores a marsh. In the darkroom caffenol meets onion skins, tinting the negative orange, the positive - blue. What at first sounds like music, devolves into musical sounds - not quite chaotic but full to the brim. There is only room for one duck in this marsh.

*** this film can be enhanced by experimenting with textures on the projection screen (such as wrinkled fabric) to play with scratches and marks on the film itself

  • Evelina Groll
    Director
    Peggy In My Dreams (2024), Pathways (2023)
  • Taya Seaton
    Producer
    Peggy In My Dreams
  • Dag Davidge
    Producer
    Alter Blue (2024), Night Tender (2023), Peggy In My Dreams (2024), Streetcar (2023), Exchanges (2023), The Space Between Us (2022)
  • Taya Seaton
    Key Cast
    Animal Control (2023), The Midnight Club (2022), Girl in Room 13(2022), Charmed(2022), Motherland: Fort Salem (2020), Christmas on Holly Lane (2018), Rejection (2025), Alert: Missing Persons Unit (2025)
  • Evelina Groll
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Analog, 16mm, celluloid, ecoprocessed, Young Director, Emerging Filmmaker
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 52 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 16, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    100 CAD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm Film
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.37:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • SYNC Sound and Image Conference by Oscill8 Collective
    Calgary
    Canada
    November 10, 2025
  • In The Can by the CSIF
    Calgary
    Canada
    December 6, 2025
Director Biography - Evelina Groll

Evelina Groll is a Mohkinstis, Calgary based multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker, whose work uses handmade and traditional methods to push the barriers of the digital age. Working primarily on analog, her filmmaking practice meets at the conjuncture of arts, science, and folk knowledge; using photochemistry to create images, and folk knowledge of plants to create natural dyes and photochemical eco-developers. After completing Simon Fraser University’s BFA Film program in 2025, she continued learning analog methods from Robert Schaller at the Handmade Film Institute. Her work has received support from the Canada Council of the Arts, the Alberta Foundation of the Arts, Calgary Arts Development, and the CSIF.

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