The Light at Walden

Pablo Frasconi | 2014 | 39 min.

2015 Official Selection

A visual poem shot at Walden Pond, Massachusetts, this film interweaves pieces of Thoreau’s texts and a war resister’s personal journey on a wilderness island in Canada. The filmmaker, as a young man during the U.S. / Vietnam War, attempts to follow Thoreau’s principles: building a cabin and living sustainably in the woods, “to front only the essential facts of life.” This is one story among the nearly 125,000 war resisters in Canada.