A Prairie Story

A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

• metropolis
• canada
• skyscraper
• dystopia
• cloud
• progress
• field
• prairie
• construction
• metamorphosis
• landscape
• population explosion
• calgary
• population growth