[Frameworks] Experimental Films on Farming/ Agriculture

[Christian Bruno]

Bill Basquin has a stunning trilogy of experimental docs shot on super8, meditations of sorts on masculinity and the agrarian world. Notably Martin, which focuses on a New Zealand sheepherder.

best
Christian

From: gencarmel at gmail.com
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:04:59 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Films on Farming/ Agriculture

Dominique Benichetti's Cousin Jules (1972)

Also see films by Gu Tao (The Last Moose of Aoluguya) and Yu Guangyi (The Last Lumberjacks)

These might not be avant-garde, depending on your definition, but these are what first came to mind. 

DER's catalogue is a great resource! 

Best, 
Gen
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Genevieve Carmel
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:49 PM, lagonaboba <lagonaboba at gmail.com> wrote:
Taylor Dunne,  Corn Mother  (on vimeo)
Monteith McCollum’s work might be of interest (samples on Vimeo)
one of Andrew Noren’s lesser known films (I don’t know if he ever formally declared it to be a finished film, or part of a larger film) involved typically Noren-esque light bathed texture and color, of opium poppy fields in Afghanistan or Pakistan, men harvesting oozing latex.  Seen in 1971? at the old Mercer St. Kitchen. Noren’s footage of Panda bears in heat in the same show, though I guess that’s not agriculture.

If Sweetgrass is to be considered “avant-garde/experimental” there are many works.Check with DER, under Agriculture; certainly not all, but a few titles are film-form smart.http://www.der.org/films/index-by-subject.html#agriLike Hillary Harris’ THE NUER.






On Jan 14, 2016, at 12:50 PM, Heath Iverson <heathiverson0 at gmail.com> wrote:
Any suggestions on avant-garde/experimental films that deal with any aspects of farming/gardening/plant or animal agriculture?

A few examples might be Marjorie Keller's Answering Furrow or Lucien Castaing-Taylor's Sweetgrass. Other ideas? 

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