SWEETGRASS Documentaries
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Country: USA
Year: 2009
Directors: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Producer: Ilisa Barbash
Director of Photography: Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Running Time (minutes): 105 min
Stunning in its cinematic and observational power, SWEETGRASS is a new kind of pastorole, a visual poem of cultural and historical shifts. Lucien Castaing-Taylor, who teaches at Harvard’s Visual Anthropology Deportment, and llisa Barbash, of Harvard’s Peabody Museum, describe themselves as “recordists” rather than filmmakers as they capture a family and their animals in their final season herding sheep in Montana’s spectacular Absoroka-Beortooth mountain range. The herders work like cowboys out of the old West, but unlike collie, sheep can be hilarious lo watch. From the cockeyed sight of a massive sheep drive down a small town’s empty main drag to a herder pouring his heart out on a cell phone at the top of a monumental vista, Castaing-Taylor and Barbash sharpen their sense of humor as well as their all-embracing lens to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Directors: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Producer: Ilisa Barbash
Director of Photography: Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Running Time (minutes): 105 min
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