Name: Agatha's Almanac
Start: 2026-06-21T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-06-21T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Webster University Winifred Moore Auditorium

(Amalie Atkins, 2025, Canada, 87 minutes)
Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she defiantly tends to her land, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Employing antiquated techniques, Agatha plants and harvests her crops entirely by hand. Without a car, cell phone, running water, or even a functioning landline, Agatha’s meditative processes and daily rituals form a vivid counterpoint to the rapid pace of contemporary life. Shot by an all-female crew over six years on 16mm film, the project captures the handmade materiality inherent in both the medium of film and Agatha’s tactile world. Her century-old farmhouse, with its grey exterior, contrasts with the bursts of vibrant color and texture inside. Unchanged since the 1950s, her home serves as a living archive of a vanishing era, rooted in her esoteric practices that predate modern conveniences. Agatha’s Almanac offers a window into the experiences of a nearly lost generation, whose values and ways of living are at risk of fading as the world rapidly changes.