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Official Selection to the Once a Week Online Film Festival 2011 http://onceaweekfilmfest.weebly.com/
part 23 in an ongoing series of films recordin...
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Official Selection to the Once a Week Online Film Festival 2011 http://onceaweekfilmfest.weebly.com/
part 23 in an ongoing series of films recording life in a small Croatian village. Changes are rapidly occurring in the village and this series is an attempt to record these changes before a whole way of life is lost.
Written and produced by Andrew Norris.
The lowing of a cow can be heard at various times throughout the day and when it's heard at one house a corresponding reply echos across the valley from one of the few remaining households where a cow is still maintained. It has a melancholic ring as if the animal itself is lamenting the decline in the number of livestock in the village.
It can still be remembered how every house would keep a cow and how it would be taken out to graze. These days, however, the cow remains in the barn and several times a day feed is brought to the animal instead. But Bara can still remember some of the songs she would sing as a child as she led the cattle to pasture, it is a style of singing that is rarely heard today.
At our end of the village there remain just four cows. And whether one is watching Bara, or Angelka or Marica at work the technique of milking has remained unchanged for centuries and it is particularly satisfying to hear the sound of warm milk splashing into a pail.
Quantities of milk vary but a few litres daily is usually sufficient for a family's needs for drinking or for making into cheese.
But one does wonder for how long the cow will be a feature in the village. Where mechanisation made the bullock redundant it is economics again that will soon make milking, like the production of wool before, a thing of the past, and with it the life of the small-scale farmer will be further eroded with the loss of yet another traditional skill.
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Trailer for a feature documentary that I edited about Eliot Spitzer. Sadly, this film was overshadowed by Alex Gibney's doc on the same subject and...
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Trailer for a feature documentary that I edited about Eliot Spitzer. Sadly, this film was overshadowed by Alex Gibney's doc on the same subject and it has yet to find distribution. However, the in depth interview with Gov. Spitzer for this film is available on DVD. See links below.
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http://worldviewpicturescorp.com/home...
http://spitzeruncut.com/home.html
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