Kentucky. For decades, Brian Ritchie’s family has been living in the heart of the Appalachians. But the mines have been shut down, with nothing to replace them. Caught between a mythical past and an indiscernible future, Brian is one of the last witnesses of a vanishing world that inspires his poetry.
Festivals & Awards
Cannes International Film Festival 2020 – ACID
IDFA 2020 – Special Mention in First Appearance Competition
Torino Film Festival 2020 – Best International Documentary Award
The Shape of Life 2021 – Best Directing Award
Press
The film’s depiction of its subjects achieves a sense of empathetic closeness, much as in the stylised documentary portraits of Ben Rivers’s Two Years at Sea or Ramell Ross’s Hale County This Morning, This Evening.
Screen Daily
A poetic, puzzling and disorienting account of a family living in the heart of the Appalachians.
Cineuropa
