This documentary explores the impacts of climate change on Alberta’s mountain landscapes. It follows a team of Indigenous and settler artists into the mountains as they reinterpret the work of early Banff painter Catharine Robb Whyte, seeing the same places from new perspectives a century later. The film culminated in a Whyte Museum exhibition last spring that showed Robb Whyte’s original works alongside Rockies Repeat artist paintings, revealing the scale of climate and cultural change.
Instead of the vistas captured by Robb Whyte, the artists experienced record-high temperatures, skies and snow tinged by wildfire smoke and a glacial backdrop so changed as to be almost unrecognizable. The Rockies Repeat artist team (l–r): Cheyenne Ozînjâ θîhâ, Kerry Langlois, Sikapinakii Low Horn, Kayla Eykelboom, Emily Beaudoin and Ariel Hill.
Photos by Viktoria North.
