The Herd
A Catskill herd of shaggy Belted Galloway cattle is the inspiration for this lovely meditation on —Belted Galloway cattle! — that, in case you’re cow-ignorant, are beautiful black or brown creatures with a broad belt of white circling their midriffs that turn your everyday cow into an aesthetic statement. Moreover, they show traces of what humans might call personality. In truth, not much happens in this documentary; they graze, chew their cuds, nuzzle their calves, just doing what cows do. In short, they just are, and as such, exert a surprisingly hypnotic power over the human viewer, forcing us to think again about our fellow animals.
2023
60 min.
directed and written by
Michel Negroponte
country
USA
The Art of Metaphor
Donna Dennis, an artist who builds metaphorical structures to honor lost friends, lives with the threat of eviction.
16 min.
directed by
Kate Taverna
country
USA
An Arrested Moment
Made by the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the occasion of “Ink and Ivory: Indian Drawings and Photographs Selected with James Ivory,” an exhibition on view until May 4, 2025. Filmmaker Dev Benegal captures filmmaker James Ivory’s love of Indian culture.
2024
29 min.
directed by
Dev Benegal
distributor
The Met Museum