Avalon
Feature Documentary
Garden Reflexxx presents: Avalon, a neo-intimate, chaos-infused road movie tracing the entangled lives of Evelyn Roth, a Canadian artist-turned-Maslin Beach icon, and Alison James, her whip-smart publican neighbor (and Jen’s mother). Evelyn’s tequila-fueled charisma meets Ali’s passive-aggressive pragmatism on a spiraling journey through art, roadtrips, memory, and crumbling utopias.
From the prairies of Mundare, Evelyn’s birthplace crowned with the world’s largest kielbasa, to Hanapepe’s creative sanctuaries, Haida Gwaii’s historic potlatch, and Vancouver Art Gallery’s reverence for Evelyn’s groundbreaking archive, Avalon explores the fraught intersections of ambition and burnout.
A practice of impressionist portraiture and mistakes-curious storytelling, Avalon invites you into Evelyn’s flamboyant orbit. A super-natural figure from the Summer of Love whose oversized inflatables have graced festivals and events for over forty years. Beneath the spectacle lies a tender, biting meditation on generational tensions and the communities we build to sustain creative lives.
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Feature Documentary
Garden Reflexxx presents: Avalon, a neo-intimate, chaos-infused road movie tracing the entangled lives of Evelyn Roth, a Canadian artist-turned-Maslin Beach icon, and Alison James, her whip-smart publican neighbor (and Jen’s mother). Evelyn’s tequila-fueled charisma meets Ali’s passive-aggressive pragmatism on a spiraling journey through art, roadtrips, memory, and crumbling utopias.
From the prairies of Mundare, Evelyn’s birthplace crowned with the world’s largest kielbasa, to Hanapepe’s creative sanctuaries, Haida Gwaii’s historic potlatch, and Vancouver Art Gallery’s reverence for Evelyn’s groundbreaking archive, Avalon explores the fraught intersections of ambition and burnout.
A practice of impressionist portraiture and mistakes-curious storytelling, Avalon invites you into Evelyn’s flamboyant orbit. A super-natural figure from the Summer of Love whose oversized inflatables have graced festivals and events for over forty years. Beneath the spectacle lies a tender, biting meditation on generational tensions and the communities we build to sustain creative lives.
