Life Is About Losing Everything

Life Is About Losing Everything is a hybrid documentary, equal parts feminist artist portrait and fantastical memoir, exploring loss and love through the lens of pop culture and art. Based on Canadian poet Lynn Crosbie’s memoir of the same name, the film follows multiple fictionalized incarnations of Crosbie as they embark on a delirious journey through the writer’s memories and imagination, encountering celebrity lookalikes, an inch-tall man, uncanny high schoolers, and a Zombie Sylvia Plath along the way. Drawing on a wealth of pop and literary references, Life Is About Losing Everything reflects on the role of art and storytelling in finding kinship and giving meaning to our lives.

Cast

Lynn Crosbie

Herself, Narrator

Susan Touchbourne

Neely

Michael Dent

Tony

Kris Langille

Prompter

Peter Bannister

Disco Dancer

Micheal J Hill

Disco Dancer

Jayna Shi

Disco Dancer

Janelle Wilson

Disco Dancer

Rubee Fegan

Woman in Bed

Tim-Fabian Hoffmann

Tiny

Sarah Green

Girl

Quinlan Mormul

Anguish