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Sweetgrass
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“…a pleasantly unhurried look at old-fashioned sheepherding in the age of industrial animal husbandry… Made by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor without supplemental commentary and with great attention to beauty, this observational documentary focuses on Montana sheepherders who run their flocks up mountains in the summer to graze, grindingly difficult work that only looks romantic. Once man and beast make it to pasture, nature overwhelms the screen and even minds...” -Manhola Dargis, The New York Times
“…an unadorned, empathetic and patient study of rural lives – human and ovine – that’s also a gruff elegy for a dying industry.” –The Hollywood Reporter
Sweetgrass
Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2009, France/UK/US, 101m
This breathtaking chronicle follows an ever-surprising group of modern-day cowboys as they lead an enormous herd of sheep up and then down the slopes of the Beartooth Mountains in Montana on their way to market. Call it an abstract Western or the last round-up. Filmmakers Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor spent three summers in Montana documenting the process by which sheep are raised, ranched, sheered, and driven hundreds of miles to graze in high pastures of Sweet Grass county. The mode is strictly observational, and there is plenty to see—and hear. Sweetgrass is routinely awe-inspiring and often hilarious. As David D’Arcy reported from the Berlin Film Festival where the documentary had its premiere, “the sheep aren’t just in the landscape, they are the landscape.” The Big Sky country has never looked more spectacular—or, thanks to the ranchers as well as their animals, sounded more cacophonous—and, after Sweetgrass, it will never look the same.
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The History of Aviation
Bálint Kenyeres, France/Hungary, 2009, 17m
Chronicle of a disappearance: a cliff-top picnic and the search for a wayward child observed by a masterfully mobile camera whose gaze elegantly encompasses land, sea, and sky.
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