Echoes in Steel

This film follows artist Garrett Gilbart, who carves metal and other found industrial materials into evocative sculptural forms, embedded with the plants, land, and histories of the places where the materials were found. When his long-favoured vintage car scrapyard closes for environmental remediation, Garrett must let go of a defining source of inspiration and material for one body of his work. Like steel itself—ever decaying and transforming—Garrett accepts his own continued transformation as an artist. Set within a post-industrial landscape that evokes echoes of labour, mass production, and decay, the film reflects on our attachment to objects and our complicated relationship with the land they return to.