Film Screening: Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
Venue: Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Appalachian Studies at Virginia Tech
Date: Saturday, January 27, 2018
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free

Description:
The Departments of Appalachian Studies at Virginia Tech and Radford University present a film screening of "Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry" on Saturday, January 27, 2018 at the Lyric Theatre.

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agrarian virtues of simplicity, land stewardship, sustainable farming, local economies and rootedness to place have been replaced by a capital-intensive model of industrial agriculture characterized by machine labor, chemical fertilizers, soil erosion and debt - all of which have frayed the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

Filmed across four seasons in the farming cycle, the film blends observational scenes of farming life, interviews with farmers and community members with evocative, carefully framed shots of the surrounding landscape. Thus, in the spirit of Berry’s agrarian philosophy, Henry County itself will emerge as a character in the film - a place and a landscape that is deeply interdependent with the people that inhabit it.

For more information on the film, visit: https://lookandseefilm.com/.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

For more information on the event, visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/143880889628232/.

For more information on The Lyric, visit: http://www.thelyric.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/lyric.blacksburg or call 540-951-4771.

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