Synopsis
A former mining town in remote northwest British Columbia, Anyox is now home to mountainous slag piles accumulated as a byproduct of the early 20th-century copper smelting process. Anyox depicts the lives of the town’s two sole remaining residents while simultaneously unfolding a complex labour history and a story of immense environmental degradation.
A word from Tënk
This first feature film takes us to an old mining town in north-western British Columbia, where the last inhabitants reclaim the metal scraps resulting from the copper smelting process. The symbol of Anyox's history, it's also a symbol of the rise of the resource extraction industry in the early 20th century, but also of migrant workers and the birth of trade unionism. Embracing the ephemeral nature of the city, the Vancouver filmmakers expose considerable environmental degradation through tableaux vivants and astonishing archives. A work of profound, poetic and political beauty, befitting the FNC's formalist and experimental New Alchemists section.
Zoé Protat
Programming Director
Festival du nouveau cinéma
