This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all. Sweetgrass is probably the definition of niche, but one dedicated to some of the highest ideals of film. Sweetgrass is streaming on fandor, and streaming with subscription on the criterion channel. Muhlenbergia filipes sweetgrass, native to the southeastern united states. An unsentimental elegy to the american west, sweetgrass follows the last modernday cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into montanas absaroka beartooth mountains for summer pasture. Sweetgrass follows a long line of documentary films focused on cultural practices on the decline in a world of global capital and accelerated technological development.
Sweetgrass struggles to please her father through the winter, but she must grow up quickly when a smallpox epidemic hits her tribe and she is the only one. Sweetgrass or mannagrass, any of the many species in the genus glyceria. Anthoxanthum odoratum, sweet vernal grass, native to eurasia. Sweetgrass 2009 cast and crew this spare documentary follows a group of shepherds as they guide hundreds of sheep through endless miles of montana wilderness. Robin wall kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the citizen potawatomi nation. Sweetgrass is the premier, gated lake community with an exclusive blowing rock, nc address. The plants database includes the following 1 subspecies of hierochloe odorata. She wants her father to choose eaglesun, a brilliant young warrior, but he keeps putting her off as too young to marry. Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teaching of plants and gathering moss.
Worlds biggest film festivals unite for 10day streaming event. Sweetgrass is a 2009 documentary film that follows modernday shepherds as they lead their flocks of sheep up into montanas absarokabeartooth mountains for summer pasture. Originally designed as a tool for rice production, the sweetgrass basket has evolved to a decorative art. The final form of sweetgrass is informed, perhaps subconsciously, by the symphony. But through thoughtful cinematography and sound design, the directors avoid romanticizing the sheepherders and their business, while dutifully presenting the awesomeness of the. Sweetgrass anthoxanthum hirtum ontario grasses, sedges. Click below on a thumbnail map or name for subspecies profiles. So sweetgrass, shot between 2001 and 2003 when a norwegianamerican clan conducted the last big sheep roundup in montanas rugged absarokabeartooth mountains, offers us a.
The title derives from sweet grass county, one of several in which the film was shot. Sweetgrass definition of sweetgrass by the free dictionary. Without commentary, this astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, climate and landscape, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. Hollis is unhappy with the fact that an elephant rivals his nephew, but he asks the jungle doctor for help. For the best natural body care products, shop sweet grass farm online today. Home blowing rock, north carolina real estate sweetgrass.
It was a home movie of the sheep drive taken by people on. Rent sweetgrass 2010 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Watch sweetgrass trailers and video, including teasers, extended looks, exclusive clips, footage, sneak peeks, interviews, and more on moviefone. Written by international documentary film festival amsterdam. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing sweetgrass near you. But sweetgrass so named for the indigenous grass that grows in the area. A number of other pov films are available in their entirety.
An unsentimental elegy to the american west, sweetgrass follows. Nestled in national park forests at an elevation of 3500 ft. Afterglow sweetgrass productions afterglow, presented by sweetgrass productions, was the winner of best cinematography and best short at this years powder awards. It wasnt really a film, to my view and while im not an expert, i have done several years of film studies. In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the beartooth mountains of montana, in the extreme northwest of the united states.
This is worthy of noting in a film that, like so much of the best nonfiction of recent years, is shorn of music save snippets of johns cowboy tunes he hums to himself on the trail. Any of several matforming, perennial grasses with a sweet fragrance, especially hierochloe odorata of northern north america and eurasia and. An unsentimental elegy to the american west, sweetgrass follows the last sheepherders to trail their flocks up into montanas beartooth mountains for summer pasture. Sweetgrass is an historical tract of land that the blakely family has called home for the past eight generations. Jumbo streaming vf gratuit, streaming film complet. Sweetgrass 2009 watch on the criterion channel, fandor, and. Generally likes to grow in damp areas, but when planted will do. Stream gratuit a gripping, hourlong documentary film by sweetgrass productions that tells a true story of the decadeslong battle over the future of british columbias iconic jumbo valleyhighlighting the tension between protection of the backcountry experience and. Unfortunately, sweetgrass is no longer available online. Indian grass, smelly vanilla grass, sweet grass other scientific names. Our lotions and balms contain the highestquality plantbased ingredients. Or by finding a quiet section along the bank of boone fork creek to try and coax some fish out.
The slow demise of traditional farming practices appears to be the hotbutton topic of slowburn documentary cinema, to namecheck raymond depardons modern life. With only a soundtrack as narration, sweetgrass tracks shepherds through montana as. Theres no better way to relax and get back to the basics than by taking a canoe out on sweetgrass lake and dropping a line. Sweetgrass is a stunningly photographed documentary about the process of sheep farming in montana. From the depth of the creative visuals to the groundbreaking, neverbeendonebefore scale of the shoot, afterglow is being hailed as one of the most cinematically. She lives in syracuse, new york, where she is a suny distinguished teaching professor of environmental. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. An unsentimental elegy to the american west, sweetgrass follows the last modernday cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into montanas breathtaking and o. Sweetgrass productions is back with darklight, a film that takes viewers back into a world of light and color. It was a journey of almost three hundred kilometres through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges a journey brimming.
Sweetgrass is 15, the oldest unmarried girl in the blackfoot tribe. Afterglow full film by sweetgrass productions on vimeo. Shot amidst the grandeur of montanas absarokabeartooth wilderness, the film follows the last modernday cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into the. It was directed by lucien castaingtaylor, a harvard anthropologist, and produced by his wife ilisa barbash. In 2003, a group of shepherds led some 3,000 sheep through a perilous, monthslong, 150mileplus journey over public lands through montanas absarokabeartooth mountains for summer pasture. An unsentimental elegy to the american west, sweetgrass follows the last modernday cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into montanas breathtaking and often dangerous absarokabeartooth mountains for summer pasture. Hierochloe odorata sweet grass or holy grass, from northern north america and eurasia. The movie keeps the human subjects at a distance, giving us little chance to really get to know. Watch sweetgrass, the documentary film by ilisa barbash and.
Take a short walk from the lake house and you will find the heart of this community. This astonishingly beautiful film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. The art of weaving sweetgrass baskets has been passed down from generation to generation, from mother to daughter, through the gullah community who descended from those west african slaves. Sweetgrass braids smolder and doesnt produce an open flame when burned. Sweetgrass is located off the historic blue ridge parkway, just north of the linn cove viaduct and visitor center.
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