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Look & see : a portrait of Wendell Berry / Owsley Brown Presents, in association with Group Entertainment, Tangible Productions and Offerman Woodshop ; a Two Birds film ; directed/produced/edited, Laura Dunn ; produced/co directed/visual design, Jef Sewell.
LIBRA BLU RAY 030 713
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Berry, Wendell, 1934-.
- Berry, Wendell.
- Berry, Wendell, 1934---Homes and haunts--Kentucky--Henry County.
- Environmentalism.
- Family farms.
- Sustainable agriculture.
- Farm life.
- Henry County (Ky.)--Rural conditions.
- Henry County (Ky.).
- Henry County (Ky.)--Economic conditions.
- Farm life--Kentucky--Henry County.
- Sustainable agriculture--Kentucky.
- Family farms--Kentucky.
- Agricultural ecology.
- Environmentalism in literature.
- Environmentalists--United States.
- Environmentalists.
- United States.
- Environmentalism--Kentucky.
- Economic history.
- Homes.
- Rural conditions.
- Kentucky.
- Kentucky--Henry County.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Biographical films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Production:
- [New York, NY] : [Two Birds Film], [2017]
- Other Title:
- Look and See
- Portrait of Wendell Berry
- System Details:
- Blu-ray disc, NTSC, Region A; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio) presentation.
- digital optical
- widescreen (1.78:1)
- NTSC
- video file Blu-ray disc region A
- Summary:
- "In 1965, Wendell Berry returned home to Henry County, where he bought a small farm house and began a life of farming, writing and teaching. This lifelong relationship with the land and community would come to form the core of his prolific writings. A half century later Henry County, like many rural communities across America, has become a place of quiet ideological struggle. In the span of a generation, the agrarian virtues of simplicity, land stewardship, sustainable farming, local economies and rootedness to place have been replaced by a capital-intensive model of industrial agriculture characterized by machine labor, chemical fertilizers, soil erosion and debt--all of which have frayed the fabric of rural communities. Writing from a long wooden desk beneath a forty-paned window, Berry has watched this struggle unfold, becoming one of its most passionate and eloquent voices in defense of agrarian life. Filmed across four seasons in the farming cycle, Look & see blends observational scenes of farming life, interviews with farmers and community members with evocative, carefully framed shots of the surrounding landscape. Thus, in the spirit of Berry's agrarian philosophy, Henry County itself will emerge as a character in the film--a place and a landscape that is deeply interdependent with the people that inhabit it"--Two Birds Film WWW site.
- Participant:
- Featuring Wendell Berry, Tanya Berry, Mary Berry, and Steve Smith.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Lee Daniel ; sound, Justin Hennard ; co producers, Owsley Brown III, Gill Holland, Brenda Mitchell, Elaine Musselman, Nick Offerman ; music, Kerry Muzzey ; original engravings, Wesley Bates.
- Notes:
- "From executive producers Robert Redford and Terrence Malick"--Container.
- Filmed Henry, Trimble, Owen, and Oldham Counties, Kentucky.
- Originally released as a documentary film in 2016.
- Official selection: Sundance, Berlinale, Hotdocs, SXSW.
- OCLC:
- 1023435612
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