“The Gleaners & I” (a French movie worth seeing if you can find it)

Another participant in the Challenge mentioned the practice of gleaning which reminded me of this really remarkable video I saw several years ago. “Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse” came out in 2000 and on it’s most basic level it is a documentary about how people still feed themselves through gleaning despite the difficulties imposed by industrialized agriculture and the contemporary administered world in general. (The video is also about the process of creating art, of gleaning images from where ever they present themselves. The “film”-maker sets off with her hand-held video camera seeking contemporary examples of Millais’ painting “The Gleaners.”) It’s available through Netflix if nowhere else.

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