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Hell Roaring Creek

Hell Roaring Creek

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

  • Country: USA
  • Year: 2010
  • Language: No dialogue
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  • Runtime: 20
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A quiet, ravishing pastoral to restore the senses. A shepherdess guides a parade of sheep across Montana's Hell Roaring Creek; a quotidian ritual that exists out of time.

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Lucien Castaing-Taylor

A quiet, ravishing pastoral to restore the senses. A shepherdess guides a parade of sheep across Montana's Hell Roaring Creek; a quotidian ritual that exists out of time.

screening times

    • Sunday September 12
    • 9:15:00 PM
    • JACKMAN HALL - AGO

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

Hell Roaring Creek is a stream in Montana with a wild name, and also the latest film by experimental anthropologist Lucien Castaing-Taylor. A static camera records the coming of day as a shepherdess leads her flock of sheep across the titular stream in a painterly pastoral to restore the senses through a tradition of old.

director bio

Lucien Castaing-Taylor was born in Liverpool and is an anthropologist and artist working in film, video, and photography. His films include Made in USA (90), In and Out of Africa (92), Sweetgrass (09) and The High Trail (10).


     
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