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Fri 17 Oct 8:30 PM
Odeon Star Semaphore: Cinema 1
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93 MinsThe northern Spanish province of Galicia is increasingly prone to savage wildfires. It is also home to the largest herds of wild horses in Europe. Everything is connected, so that the decrease in horses means more highly flammable gorse; and ironically renewable energy isn’t helping with the roads cut to the wind towers destroying horse habitat.
Robin Petré refuses to preach to us and yet has made an innovative and quietly urgent film that can only be called holistic. Her strategy is to stare long and hard at the interactions that lay themselves bare: the rhythms of social life that revolve around the horses, the ways the community must learn to live with fire, the firefighters in action and in down time, the way kids play together. These things are all inextricably bound up. If we’re going to save the earth, we need to look closely at it first.
Robin Petré refuses to preach to us and yet has made an innovative and quietly urgent film that can only be called holistic. Her strategy is to stare long and hard at the interactions that lay themselves bare: the rhythms of social life that revolve around the horses, the ways the community must learn to live with fire, the firefighters in action and in down time, the way kids play together. These things are all inextricably bound up. If we’re going to save the earth, we need to look closely at it first.