Summer Pasture
Dec 30 - Jan 05, 2012
(Lynn True Nelson Walker & Tsering Perlo, 2010, Tibet/China, 2011)
This is not your typical “Free Tibet” film. More family drama than political exposé, this documentary of a young nomadic family from eastern Tibet is both intimate and unromantic. Summer Pasture successfully documents a way of life in transition. In a classic example of “show, don’t tell,” no filmic commentary explains the situation, yet the harshness of the landscape and political conditions are undeniably evident.
"Has an earthy intimacy and compassion for its subjects that will have you thinking about their plight long after they've packed up and moved on for winter." —LA Times
"Summer Pasture is remarkable not merely for documenting the disappearing way of life, but for registering the depth of Yama and Locho's uncertainty about moving on from it." —Village Voice
