In the monumental American West, we are acoustic eavesdroppers on a man petting his herding dog, while we are visual witnesses to the progress of the sheep‘s charges, as apparently infinite as Rabelais‘ ’moutons de Panurge,‘ across a mythic landscape.
35mm, 7 minutes
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, born 1966 in Liverpool, UK, is a filmmaker, photographer and associate professor at the Institute for Visual & Environmental Studies, and Anthropology at Harvard University, USA. His film Sweetgrass had it‘s world premier at the International Forum of New Cinema in 2009. He lives and works in Cambridge, USA.
Contact: lgtaylor@fas.harvard.edu
