When photographer and writer Cig Harvey found out her best friend Mary was diagnosed with terminal leukemia, she did what she knew best: made photographs. As Mary faced isolation and debilitating treatment, Cig set out to bring the world to Mary. Over the coming years, Cig captured and sent Mary images of beauty, life and color. Images that evoked the sensual, the sacred, the delicate and the brave. Images exploding with color, piercing with light, evoking the pain and beauty of life, even as we face death.
As we reckon with mass trauma and loss across our country and the world, and continue to face so many - at times terrifying - unknowns, Eat Flowers shows us the way. Through images of beauty, and love letters to the world and the ones we love, Cig and Mary find a way through an unspeakable tragedy and loss. One image and message at a time. - IDA (International Documentary Association)
Eat Flowers is a call to LIVE.
“Photographer Cig Harvey honored her late friend in River Finlay’s extraordinary “Eat Flowers” in which both the visuals and narration have an awe-inspiring poetry. ”
“A stunning visual love letter to the therapeutic power of colour through flowers against the backdrop of the artist at work, stills of her photographic work, and the story of her best friend’s illness and death, encouraging us to live and feel and not take a moment for granted. Informative, moving and bathed in dense, rich colour, this is a beautiful gem of a short film that should be cherished and shared; I can’t wait to see what this sensitive, curious and incredibly talented artist does next.”
CREDITS
Director, Producer, Cinematographer
River Finlay
Executive Producer
Alison Klayman
Editors
Ashley Rodholm
Sara Newens
Producers
Cig Harvey
Sashka Rothchild
Original Score Composer
William Ryan Fritch
Sound Design
Peter Albrechtsen
Camera
John Shelley
Colorist
AYumi Ashley
Title Design and Animator
Benjamin Goldman
Voice Over Recording
Charles Van Kirk