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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the agrarian virtues of simplicity, land stewardship, sustainable farming, local economies and rootedness to place have been replaced by a capital-intensive model of industrial agriculture characterized by machine labor, chemical fertilizers, soil erosion and debt--all of which have frayed the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.

Contributors:

Dunn, Laura , producer, director, editor of moving image work

Sewell, Jef , producer, director, production designer

Berry, Wendell, 1934- , narrator, onscreen participant

Berry, Tanya , onscreen participant

Berry, Mary , onscreen participant

Smith, Steve , onscreen participant

Daniel, Lee, 1962- , director of photography

Muzzey, Kerry , composer

Brown, Owsley, III , producer

Holland, Gill, 1964- , producer

Mitchell, Brenda (Producer) , producer

Musselman, Elaine , producer

Offerman, Nick, 1970- , producer

Redford, Robert , producer

Malick, Terrence, 1943- , producer

Owsley Brown Presents (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Group Entertainment (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Tangible Productions , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Offerman Woodshop , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Two Birds Film , production company, publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Subjects:

Berry, Wendell, 1934-

Berry, Wendell, 1934- — Homes and haunts — Kentucky — Henry County

Henry County (Ky.) — Rural conditions

Henry County (Ky.) — Economic conditions

Farm life — Kentucky — Henry County

Sustainable agriculture — Kentucky

Family farms — Kentucky

Agricultural ecology

Environmentalism in literature

Environmentalists — United States

Environmentalism — Kentucky

Homes

Rural conditions

Economic conditions

Farm life

Sustainable agriculture

Family farms

Environmentalists

Environmentalism

Kentucky

United States

Kentucky — Henry County

Genres:

Documentary films

Biographical films

Nonfiction films

Feature films

System Details:

Blu-ray disc.

Performers:

Featuring Wendell Berry, Tanya Berry, Mary Berry, and Steve Smith.

Production 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.

General 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.
Public performance rights included.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo; Dolby

Digital Characteristics:

video file; Blu-ray; region 1

Call Numbers:

PS3552.E75 LOO 2016 BLU

OCLC Numbers:

1053552332
1023435612 [Invalid]