Tag: Cailleah Scott-Grimes

Rockin’ the Coffin

23 October 2020
death, mortality, the deadfilmfuneral, commemorationimagination, creativitymetaphor, symbolperformance, play, entertainmentquestionsritual, festivalthings, objects
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How does creativity help us cope? What role does the imagination play in allaying our age-old fears of loss and separation?  Filmmaker Cailleah Scott-Grimes leans into these questions in the short doc she’s made in collaboration with her father. Rockin’ the Coffin, a contrarian’s guide to the good death, was made possible by the CBC’s Creative Relief…

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Making It Up As We…Go

19 January 2020
dialoguesfamilyfilmmoving, mobilityritual, festival

This video was first published in 2011, before Cailleah Scott-Grimes went to Japan for the first time. Here it is re-published with questions by Fabiana Fondevila, an Argentine journalist, and responses by Cailleah. Fabiana (by email): Tue, 10 May 2011. Hello Cailleah, Its nice to meet you. I am a journalist from Argentina and I’ve…

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Big questions

22 November 2017
aging, childhood, adolescencereligion, spiritualityvideo & audio

When the kids were little, we began tossing them big questions. Where are your dead grandparents? Where do babies come from? What is a good person? What’s bad? If the house were on fire and you had to grab one thing, what would it be? These videoed interviews took various forms: storytelling, metaphysical speculation, flights…

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