From the trenches
According to the Native American writer and poet N. Scott Momaday, there comes a time in every man’s life when he ought to concentrate his mind awhile and give himself over to a remembered landscape in his experience. To look at it from as many angles as he is able. To wonder and dwell upon it, and to imagine that he touches it with his bare hands at every fresh turning of the season…
My own personal journey along similar pathways began back in April 2008, and lasted for the next two-and-a-half years of my filmmaking life. The result of all that wayfaring contemplation is the feature-length documentary Way of the Morris, which received its world premiere at the recent SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
A love-letter to agrarian roots and a search for identity in an ever-shifting world, Way of the Morris is a film about birthplace, heritage and rural brotherhood. Made with the keen assistance of director Rob Curry and Fifth Column Films, it’s also been a crusade to unearth something altogether more mysterious, magical and magisterial in something all too often simply tarred-and-feathered.
Read the rest of Tim Plester's adventures at SXSW in Issue 28 of Film & Festivals.
WAY OF THE MORRIS: Official Trailer 2 (HD) from Way Of The Morris on Vimeo.
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