For their first feature film, the directorial duo Jessica Johnson and Ryan Ermacora focus on the ruins of an industrial city from Northwest Canada, one of the many settlements in the case of which their initial role as a hub of greedy natural resource extraction could never change into the type of mutual help and responsible production which lies at the foundation of a community. And indeed, after the predictable depletion of soil resources, there are only two people left – the last residents of Anyox, whom the camera film as if they were artefacts, against a background of a degraded, albeit sublime nature. In this regard, “Anyox” is an archaeological endeavour, that aims to recompose the turbulent social history of these phantom-settlements, where the fights for the acknowledgement of workers’ rights, suppressed in their time, reveal the past and current fissures of the capitalist system. (Liri Chapelan)