We survived the end of the world (and Christmas! And the New Year’s celebrations!), and now Passengerfilms are happy to be back at The Roxy Bar and Screen on Wednesday the 23rd of January for a much-anticipated night on herding and human-animal geographies.
Featuring Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s stunning documentary Sweetgrass (2009), an award-winning, beautifully shot examination of the link between cowboys and sheep in Montana’s dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains. Sweetgrass is an unsentimental elegy to the American West, following the last modern-day cowboys in search of summer pasture. This beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are intimately meshed. We’re absolutely thrilled to be able to screen it after having to reschedule earlier this year.
Accompanied by a screening of Lindsay Blatt and Paul Taggart’s short documentary Herd in Iceland (2012), which follows the horse herders of Iceland across breathtaking landscapes, and Eva Weber’s gorgeous, impressionistic 3-minute short Reindeer (2011) - a haunting portrait of reindeer herding in the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness.
Plus guest speaker Hayden Lorimer on herding and transhumance. Dr. Lorimer is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow; his work considers the geographical dimensions of a series of themes: landscape, nature, fieldwork, science, memory, mobility and biography.
So follow the herd to the Roxy on the 23rd! Food, drink, and comfy sofas available throughout the evening…and we’ll be playing herding songs and herding calls from different countries before and between the films.
7:30pm, Wednesday the 23rd January, The Roxy Bar and Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street, SE1 1LB. Entry £5. See map.
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