is an unnarrated
document of farm life. In this case the subject is a remote sheep farm in
Montana, the last one to take their sheep on a long long summer trek to high
mountain pastures. The scenery is astonishing, as are the many shots of
hundreds of sheep on the move, along roads, through small towns (ghost towns?),
fields and forests. Sheep are a stoic bunch and they don’t seem to mind the
hardships: the long walk or the indignity of being shorn and then sent out into
the snow.

The sheepherders could learn a thing or two about calm and
patience from the Swedish farmer from
– this bunch are constantly griping and
complaining and you get the sense that this lifestyle is just too hard for modern
Americans. It’s a totally original take
on the idea of the American West and the last frontier.

Catch this movie on Oct 13th at 6:30pm and Oct 15th 1:30pm both at the Vancity Theatre.