The top 10 films from the 2011 banff mountain film. 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. Sweetgrass plants, customer examples from around the. Tabatha takes over sweetgrass tv episode 2011 imdb. Apr 23, 2011 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 fascinatingly different. Solitaire backcountry skiing by sweetgrass productions. This is not intended to be an offer to sell nor a solicitation of offers to buy real estate in sweetgrass to residents in any jurisdiction where prohibited by law. Within the framework of documentary, perhaps nothing is more difficult than conveying a deliberately paced lifestyle onscreen. Apr 22, 2011 directed by ilisa barbash, lucien castaingtaylor. Sweetgrass stock photos download 118 royalty free photos. The final form of sweetgrass is informed, perhaps subconsciously, by the symphony. Every turn has a personality, and every personality has its own unique style. Nine viewers will win prizes in our sweetgrass giveaway. Nov 23, 2011 sweetgrass productions, 45 minutes call up your buddy with the big screen, or rent out the main street movie theater for a night, and order a presale copy of solitaire.
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. 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. I am hoping that my pictures can be added to your website to represent washington state. A documentary film by ilisa barbash and lucien castaing taylor sweetgrass follows the last modernday cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into the breathtaking and often dangerous mountains for summer pasture. Such is the theme of this years sweetgrass productions ski movie, solitaire. Sweetgrass is a documentary film from directors lisa barbash and lucien castaingtaylor. All you have to do to enter is fill out the form below before friday, july 8 at 5 pm et. An unsentimental elegy to the american west, sweetgrass follows the last modernday cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into montanas absarokabeartooth mountains for summer pasture. The last year we went we lost 60 verified head of sheep to mainly grizzly bears that last year, and we came up short probably around 100 head.
The top 10 films from the 2011 banff mountain film festival. It was directed by lucien castaingtaylor, a harvard anthropologist, and produced by his wife ilisa barbash. It wasnt really a film, to my view and while im not an expert, i have done several years of film studies. Rent sweetgrass 2010 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. 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. Braiding sweetgrass quotes showing of 2 in some native languages the term for plants translates to those who take care of us.
The title derives from sweet grass county, one of several in which the film was shot. Watch at home blog films about newsletter watch at home blog films about newsletter. Sweetgrass is probably the definition of niche, but one dedicated to some of the highest ideals of film. 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. Deliciously deep january blower to april corn, we bring you a film about expression, and the art of riding. Chiropractor tim tschirhart has a vision for building more than a salon and spa. Jan 01, 1984 sweetgrass is 15, the oldest unmarried girl in the blackfoot tribe. Sweet grass herb uses and health benefits the herbal resource. An unsentimental elegy to the american west, sweetgrass follows the last sheepherders to trail their flocks up into montanas beartooth mountains for summer pasture. 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. Sweetgrass productions, 45 minutes call up your buddy with the big screen, or rent out the main street movie theater for a night, and order a presale copy of solitaire. The clips used in this lesson are from sweetgrass, a film that compiles raw footage of ranchers caring for sheep and the now defunct practice of. Nominated for a grammy in 2002, this best of cd was recorded live in the school auditorium of aabergs hometown, chester, montana.
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. Take a short walk from the lake house and you will find the heart of this community. Sweetgrass braids, some with the seedheads braided in. As david darcy reported from the berlin film festival where the documentary had its premiere, the sheep arent just in the landscape, they.
Sweetgrass plants, customer examples from around the united. Deliciously deep january blower to april corn, we bring you a film about expression, and the art of riding on snow. The slow demise of traditional farming practices appears to be the hotbutton topic of slowburn documentary cinema, to namecheck raymond depardons modern life. 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. Licensed to youtube by cd baby on behalf of four and four records.
Sweetgrass productions september 20, 2019 always a good time working with the archives for alta ski area looking back to the past and seeing legends like the engen brothers showing the same spirit that brings us into the mountains today. Sweetgrass is the premier, gated lake community with an exclusive blowing rock, nc address. Into these most inhospitable of lands, a handful of drifters emerge from the whiteout, ready to cast their lot on forsaken peaks both merciless and. Led by the grizzled john ahorn and his younger protege, pat connelly, it would be the last such drive of its kind, ending a long tradition carried on by herders of norwegian descent.
This astonishingly beautiful film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. Anthoxanthum odoratum, sweet vernal grass, native to eurasia. Sweetgrass 2009 this spare documentary follows a group of shepherds as they guide hundreds of sheep through endless miles of montana wilderness. July 2011, plants exploding out of the planter boxes.
As david darcy reported from the berlin film festival where the documentary had its premiere, the sheep arent just in. Sep 24, 2009 sweetgrass is routinely aweinspiring and often hilarious. If time could run backward, like a film in reverse, we would see this mess reassemble itself into lush green hills and mosscovered ledges of limestone. Sep, 2011 such is the theme of this years sweetgrass productions ski movie, solitaire. Dec 17, 2009 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. 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. Sweetgrass is a stunningly photographed documentary about the process of sheep farming in montana.
This film had a singular lack of focus, which made it hard to get through. Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants. Sweetgrass or mannagrass, any of the many species in the genus glyceria. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all. 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. Delve deeper into sweetgrass a film by ilisa barbash and lucien castaingtaylor this multimedia resource list, compiled by gina blume of the monroe township public library, includes books, films and other materials related to the issues presented in the film sweetgrass. Nestled in national park forests at an elevation of 3500 ft. Home blowing rock, north carolina real estate sweetgrass. Sweetgrass is 15, the oldest unmarried girl in the blackfoot tribe. The final sheep drive into montanas absarokabeartooth mountains is the subject of lucien taylor and llisa barbashs 2009 documentary sweetgrass. Sweetgrass presents a riveting and poetic portrait of the american. When tabatha arrives she discovers a hippie owner who wants to treat his staff like a community and is at odds with his aggressive manager who is driving away his staff. The movie keeps the human subjects at a distance, giving us little chance to really get to know.
Muhlenbergia filipes sweetgrass, native to the southeastern united states. Under a public grazing permit that had been handed down in his norwegianamerican family for generations, allestad was the final rancher to drive his herds into montanas rugged absarokabeartooth range north of yellowstone to fatten. She wants her father to choose eaglesun, a brilliant young warrior, but he keeps putting her off as too young to marry. With director nick waggoners cinematic work on previous sweetgrass flicks, ive come to expect a level of eye candy that conveys the texture, sound and eyeball fest practically the smells of mountain adventure. A backcountry skiing, snowboarding, and telemark film from sweetgrass productions in the high desert of south america, winter takes hold, devouring bleached bones and abandoned shacks. Afterglow full film by sweetgrass productions duration. Sweetgrass follows the last modernday cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into the breathtaking and often dangerous mountains for summer pasture. Hierochloe odorata sweet grass or holy grass, from northern north america and eurasia. Moviescouch is free movie download website in hd 720p. Here you can download free latest movies online in hd quality print. Robin wall kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the citizen potawatomi nation.
Pictures from may 2011, with the sweetgrass boxes, getting ready to get divided into new boxes. I got the sweetgrass plants from you last spring may 2011 and got 2 good cuttings from them. The streams would run back up the hills to the springs and the salt would stay glittering in underground rooms. When did you know there would be a last sheep drive, which we ultimately saw in sweetgrass in 2003 elaine allestad.
Caring for newborn lambs overview in this lesson, students will watch and research animal husbandry practices for managing newborn lambs. About us blowing rock, north carolina real estate sweetgrass. My goal in growing sweetgrass is to use it my pine needle basketry. This plant has a circumboreal distribution, meaning that the. From the orange and gold of fall to the pink cherry blossoms of spring, signatures follows an entire winter deep in the hardwoods of hokkaido, japan. This astonishingly beautiful film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, and vulnerability and. He wants to have a holistic wellness center that treats people inside and out. 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 with challenges. Equal housing opportunity 2019 wfg sweetgrass, llc. Sweetgrass is routinely aweinspiring and often hilarious.
Simply put, lawrence allestad and family were among the last of the traditional sheepherders of the american west. It was a home movie of the sheep drive taken by people on the trail, and cobbled together into a modern version of someone showing you slides from their vacation. A backcountry skiing, snowboarding, and telemark film. July 2011 plants growing in boxes, cutting and drying and made into braids. 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. She lives in syracuse, new york, where she is a suny distinguished teaching professor of.
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