arsenal on location – Sommerkino: SWEETGRASS

The accompanying programme to the exhibition will include further long and short films from the SEL environment as well as listening sessions, performances, public discussions and workshops.

Sheep as far as the eye can see. Anthropologist and filmmaker Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash spent three summers in the Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains documenting sheep farming on one of the last family-owned ranches. When a sheep eats, we see and hear the chewing movement and the sheep's bell. When it discovers the camera, its gaze freezes the image, only the wind can still be heard. The original sound contributes to the accuracy of each shot. During the shearing, we can literally feel the shepherd's physical effort and the sheep's dazed state. The arrangement of views in the room analyses the relationship of a newborn to the flock, the mother and the shepherdess. When thousands of sheep walk through a gate or follow the grass trail of a feeding machine, it looks like a mass scene from a monumental film.

The screening will take place with headphones.

Friday, August 15
silent green courtyard
Start: 9 pm
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