Sweetgrass

Sweetgrass

An unsentimental elegy to the American West that follows the last modern-day cowboys leading their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s mountains for summer pasture. An astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film that reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing‐Taylor
Cinematography: Lucien Castaing‐Taylor
Sound: Ernst Karel
Producers: Ilisa Barbash
Camera: Lucien Castaing‐Taylor
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: USA
Production Year: 2009
Duration: 101'
Contact: The Cinema Guild, Inc., info@cinemaguild.com

Ilisa Barbash

Filmography

1992 In and Out of Africa
1997 Made in USA
2009 Sweetgrass

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Filmography

1992 In and Out of Africa (co-direction)
2009 Sweetgrass (co-direction)
2012 Leviathan (co-direction)
2015 Ah, Humanity! (short, co-direction)
2017 Somniloquies (co-direction)
2017 Caniba (co-direction)
2022 De humani corporis fabrica (co-direction)