Alaskan Tapes poses an impossible question

In a dystopian future not too far from our own, a young couple grapples with a heartbreaking question: Is it right to have a child in an increasingly uncertain world? 

This is the harrowing and thought-provoking story that sits at the centre of director Andrew de Zen’s fifth collaboration with Toronto-based musician Brady Kendall, as part of his ever-evolving music project, the Alaskan Tapes. 

Titled Holocene, the tender and meditative creative blends symbolic, cinematic scenes and heart-wrenching human narratives to depict an ethereal world that feels both distant yet unsettling close to the one we know, with an aching relatability to the choices young people face today.  

Produced by Boldly, the shoot took place over five days set against the striking natural landscape of Vancouver, with gorgeous VFX, including the imposing moon and wildfires, crafted in collaboration with Copenhagen post-house, Chemistry VFX.