In 1965, Wendell Berry returned home to Henry County, Kentucky 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. 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: A Portrait of Wendell Berry blends observational scenes of farming life, interviews with farmers and community members with evocative, carefully framed shots of the surrounding landscape. Henry County itself emerges as a character in the film, a place and a landscape that is deeply interdependent with the people that inhabit it.
Directors’ Biographies
Laura Dunn: Laura Dunn is the director of The Unforseen, executive produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007, and Look & See ('16). Her honors include a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, Student Academy Award, Yale’s Trumbull Fine Arts Prize, International Documentary Association Pare Lorenz Grant and an Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award.
Jef Sewell: Jef Sewell acted as producer on Laura's first feature documentary, The Unforseen. Jef is also Founder/CEO of Austin-based Amplifier, a vertically-integrated merchandising logistics firm that serves well-known Internet brands. Look & See is his directorial debut.
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