Film Schedule

• February 19, 2010

  Planting Trees in Africa - Taking Root and Pumzi

• February 20, 2010

  The Vanishing American West - Sweetgrass

• February 21, 2010

  Suncoast Nature - Wild Orchid Man and The Phosphate Dilemma

• February 22, 2010

  Under the Sea - A View from Below

• February 23, 2010

  Urban and Suburban Community Gardens - The Nature of Cities, Beyond Organic and Homegrown Revolution

• February 24, 2010

  Turning Trash into Cash in Cairo - Garbage Dreams and Eco Shorts

• February 25, 2010

  Global Overfishing - End of the Line

• February 26, 2010

  Man on the Moon - Moon

• February 27, 2010

  Revisiting the Western -The Only Good Indian

The Vanishing American West - Sweetgrass

When: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 7 pm

Credits

Directors: Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (English, 101 mins., 35mm, 2009)
Official website

An ethnographic study of a vanishing way of life, Sweetgrass follows some of the last modern-day cowboys as they herd sheep into the beautiful Absaroka-Beartooth mountains. Co-director Ilisa Barbash will be here to introduce the film.

"Magnificent... Wonderful... The first essential movie of this young year... Astonishingly beautiful... Nature overwhelms the screen and even minds..." MANOHLA DARGIS - THE NEW YORK TIMES

Ilisa Barbash

Ilisa Barbash is Associate Curator of Visual Anthropology at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. Her film works (all co-directed with Lucien Taylor) include Made in U.S.A. (1990), a film about sweatshops and child labor in the Los Angeles garment industry, and In and Out of Africa (1992), a video about authenticity, taste, and racial politics in the transnational African art market. With Lucian Taylor, she is author of The Cinema of Robert Gardner.

News & Views

• March 29, 2010

  The 2010 award recipients have been announced! Click here to see the winners.

• February 5, 2010

  The 2010 films have been announced. Learn more.