Trailer for Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing

The first feature-length documentary on the life and literary work of the reclusive Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop. This mesmerizing masterpiece is framed by her renowned poem “One Art” about loss, written by the poet after a lifelong string of tragedies from her father’s death when she was an infant to the suicide of her Brazilian lover Lota. Transplanted Nova Scotia filmmaker John D. Scott foregrounds how Bishop's journey is indelibly connected to her Nova Scotian heritage.