What to expect
The film records extraordinary collective movement and landscape while reflecting the outsider gaze of its American makers. Its images are historically valuable, but the people on screen must not be reduced to scenery for adventure.
How to ease in
The journey, not an individual hero, is the structure. Watch how animals, weather, terrain, and shared labour determine pace, while remaining alert to what the filmmakers explain and what they leave voiceless.
Heads-up
The Bakhtiari people undertake a seasonal migration across rivers and mountains in search of grazing land.
The landscape looks monumental, but the crossing is made from hundreds of practical acts. I try to keep the people’s labour in the foreground when the camera invites me to admire the expedition as spectacle.
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The landscape looks monumental, but the crossing is made from hundreds of practical acts. I try to keep the people’s labour in the foreground when the camera invites me to admire the expedition as spectacle.
— Momo
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