When the curator of Reimagining the Land, our collaboration with Sheffield Doc/Fest now in its second week, encountered Hiroatsu Suzuki and Rossana Torres's Earth at a Portuguese film festival in 2018, he was blown away. Here was a work of rare precision and scale, a portrait of a community at work on the land that seemed to encompass, paradoxically through its very specificity, the entirety of the world. It was like a transmission from another planet, a whole universe in itself.
"About a spare rural community in the Alentejo region, a seemingly isolated riverside locale draped in a lingering membrane of ashen smoke, where a small group of men manufacture charcoal in vast brown ovens that protrude out of the ground like huts in the desert. Using this as a starting point, the filmmakers treat the region as a site of almost primeval energy, a spare, unforgiving landscape in which men work, and work with the encompassing quiet of a lifetime spent laboring in relative solitude." Christopher Small, Cinema Scope
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