a feature-length video project completed in 2008 / 1hr + 33 min / made with Sheila Heti, Sholem Krishtalka,
Lee Towndrow, Julia Rosenberg, Steven Kado, Milosh Rodic, Ryan Kamstra, January Films + many others.
Released at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival's art program, Future Projections
Synopsis:
"Teenager Hamlet 2006" was filmed during five consecutive days in July, 2006. A structure, but no dialogue or script, was devised which would use everybody and everything that was available to the video’s creator, painter-acting-as-director Margaux Williamson. The intention was to see what kind of story was at the centre of her community. The resulting footage, assembled into a feature-length film over the next two years, includes: a group of "Hamlets" (who think a great deal about injustice and their own impotence); a group of "Ophelias" (who give high value to beauty and its power); and a group of "aktors" in the woods who try and map out what the story of Hamlet looks like in 2006. A startling hybrid of make-believe and documentary, art and politics, "Teenager Hamlet 2006" raises questions about how we live in stories today.