Look & See: A Film by Laura Dunn

Sun Green Thumb has read Wendell Berry's writings as holy text and we are thrilled to be able to bring this film about him to Minicine?. The director, Laura Dunn, has shown her films at Minicine? in years past and we think its great that she directed the film of our favorite agrarian and poet. A man who blatantly scolds the current systems in place....a man whose solace is found in the deep wilderness. Wendell Berry is a pioneer of regenerative agriculture....an agrarian of great depths.

Sun Green Thumb will have a pop-up plant nursery as well as seeds available.

Artist works by Ginevra Fernhill of Fernhill Photography and Robert Trudeau as well as a small installation piece by tinyalive.

DONATIONS ACCEPTED and will go to support the film-makers.

From the film's website:

LOOK & SEE revolves around the divergent stories of several residents of Henry County, Kentucky who each face difficult choices that will dramatically reshape their relationship with the land and their community.

In 1965, Wendell Berry returned home to Henry County, where he bought a small farm house and began a life of farming, writing and teaching. This lifelong relationship with the land and community would come to form the core of his prolific writings. A half century later Henry County, like many rural communities across America, has become a place of quiet ideological struggle. In the span of a generation, the agrarian virtues of simplicity, land stewardship, sustainable farming, local economies and rootedness to place have been replaced by a capital-intensive model of industrial agriculture characterized by machine labor, chemical fertilizers, soil erosion and debt - all of which have frayed the fabric of rural communities. Writing from a long wooden desk beneath a forty-paned window, Berry has watched this struggle unfold, becoming one of its most passionate and eloquent voices in defense of agrarian life.

Filmed across four seasons in the farming cycle, LOOK & SEE blends observational scenes of farming life, interviews with farmers and community members with evocative, carefully framed shots of the surrounding landscape. Thus, in the spirit of Berry’s agrarian philosophy, Henry County itself will emerge as a character in the film - a place and a landscape that is deeply interdependent with the people that inhabit it.