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2 days agoHow the 'Blue Heron' Editor Turned the Director's Childhood Into One of 2026's Best Films
The film 'Blue Heron' explores time and memory through the lens of a family's emotional journey on Vancouver Island.
She was taking a break from tech rehearsals for the latest production of one of those shows, "Oratorio for Living Things," at the Signature Theatre. Inspired by, as she puts it, "the three Carls"-Sagan, Orff, and (Carlo) Rovelli-"Oratorio" is a musical meditation, for twelve singers, on time, memory, and what it means to be human on a turbulent planet at the edge of cataclysm.