Work / Documentary
Northshore Trust — 2025
The Last Lighthouse Keeper
About the project
Forty-one years on the same rock. When the Northshore Trust automated its final manned lighthouse, we spent the keeper's last winter with him — three trips, two storms, one very small boat. The 22-minute film premiered at the Aurora Documentary Festival and now anchors the Trust's public archive. Shot on a two-person crew to keep the silence honest.
Credits
- Director
- Mara Ellison
- Cinematography
- Mara Ellison
- Producer
- Aya Tanaka
- Editor
- Theo Marchetti
- Composer
- Elliot Frei
- Client
- Northshore Trust