Aidan West

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature film. PREFACE TO A HISTORY, created with a tiny crew of four people, represents an experiment in using minimalist tools to create an overwhelming aesthetic experience in service of a simple, but specifically contemporary, story about two people attempting to navigate a fraying relationship amid all the anxieties and external pressures of modern adulthood in a technologically-interconnected and politically unstable era.

Two women commiserate on their experiences with men while they make their way through the woods.

Two women commiserate on their experiences with men while they make their way through the woods.

Between nights of partying, two young men try to talk about their lives, their futures, and their fears.

In 1981, a young girl spends a day at the fire station with her mother, the only female firefighter on the force, and witnesses what a typical day of work looks like, for better and for worse.

In 1981, a young girl spends a day at the fire station with her mother, the only female firefighter on the force, and witnesses what a typical day of work looks like, for better and for worse.

A little girl spends one last day with her babysitter.

A little girl spends one last day with her babysitter.

After a woman is abandoned by her boyfriend in the forest, she befriends a couple and gradually realizes they are a pair of notorious bank robbers on the run from the law.

After a woman is abandoned by her boyfriend in the forest, she befriends a couple and gradually realizes they are a pair of notorious bank robbers on the run from the law.