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

Susan Touchbourne

Neely

Tim-Fabian Hoffmann

Tiny

Cait Stuart

Aileen

Loveday Smith

Erica

Benjamin Höppner

Otto

Stéphanie Michelini

Joan

Dieter Rita Scholl

Alfred

Manuel Hill

Clark

Champagna

Stewardess

Alex Milner

Kurt