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This film block brings together stories rooted in long-term relationships with place. Across cliffs, forests, rivers, glaciers, and remote ecosystems, these films follow people who return again and again to landscapes they know well, learning how those places are changing and what it means to remain in relationship with them.
Climbers organize to protect access to local rocks, scientists search for species shaped by fire and warming climates, communities restore rivers by removing long-standing barriers, and artists and researchers bear witness to disappearing ice and elusive wildlife. Together, these films consider long-term engagement with wild lands and the species that inhabit them as landscapes and ecosystems change.
Born of a broken relationship, megafires rage where good fire once lived. For over a century, settlers purged fire from North American landscapes—forgetting that it once walked beside us, a force of renewal woven into the West.
In Northern California’s Lassen National Forest, wildlife biologist Alyssa enters ground zero of the 2021 Dixie Fire—one of the largest and most severe wildfires in state history. She returns to a place she calls home, in search of a species she knew. Pacific marten; an elusive and feisty forest carnivore deeply tied to environmental change.
Laced with cautious hope, this is a story of grief, belonging, and the bond between people, wildlife, and place. From Lassen, With Love is a love letter to a wounded but very much alive landscape, and a quiet call to reimagine and re-embrace our relationship with fire.
- Year2025
- Runtime14:42
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMaddy Rifka
- CastAlyssa Roddy
This film block brings together stories rooted in long-term relationships with place. Across cliffs, forests, rivers, glaciers, and remote ecosystems, these films follow people who return again and again to landscapes they know well, learning how those places are changing and what it means to remain in relationship with them.
Climbers organize to protect access to local rocks, scientists search for species shaped by fire and warming climates, communities restore rivers by removing long-standing barriers, and artists and researchers bear witness to disappearing ice and elusive wildlife. Together, these films consider long-term engagement with wild lands and the species that inhabit them as landscapes and ecosystems change.
Born of a broken relationship, megafires rage where good fire once lived. For over a century, settlers purged fire from North American landscapes—forgetting that it once walked beside us, a force of renewal woven into the West.
In Northern California’s Lassen National Forest, wildlife biologist Alyssa enters ground zero of the 2021 Dixie Fire—one of the largest and most severe wildfires in state history. She returns to a place she calls home, in search of a species she knew. Pacific marten; an elusive and feisty forest carnivore deeply tied to environmental change.
Laced with cautious hope, this is a story of grief, belonging, and the bond between people, wildlife, and place. From Lassen, With Love is a love letter to a wounded but very much alive landscape, and a quiet call to reimagine and re-embrace our relationship with fire.
- Year2025
- Runtime14:42
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMaddy Rifka
- CastAlyssa Roddy