Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry

Name: Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 30, 2017
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Arwen Donahue, Curtis Combs, Earl L. Butz, John Berry Jr., John Logan Brent

2017

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Look & See: A Portrait Of Wendell Berry

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| Release Date: June 30, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Arwen Donahue, Curtis Combs, Earl L. Butz, John Berry Jr., John Logan Brent, Juan Javier Reyes, Mary Berry, Michael Douglas, Tanya Berry, Wendell Berry

Summary: 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 andLook & 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the agrarian virtues of simplicity, land stewardship, sustainable farming, local economies and rootedness to place have been replaced by a capital-intensive model of industrial agriculture characterized by machine labor, chemical fertilizers, soil erosion and debt - all of which have frayed the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.… Expand

Director: Jef Sewell and Laura Dunn

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 82 min

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