Notes from Sheepland
Film details
| Film Title | Notes from Sheepland |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 71mins |
| Year | 2024 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Director | Cara Holmes |
| Actors | Orla Barry, Cara Holmes |
| Language | English |
| Showings |
Orla Barry is a hard-working, lipstick-wearing sheep farmer in rural Wexford. She is also a visual artist, renowned for her video and sound art. She strides confidently from art seminars to the Tullamore Show, lambing in April and shearing in June, working tirelessly to make a living from eco-farming in the face of global demand for faster, cheaper meats and wools. But while tied to the demands of the ovine calendar she must make time to let her creativity flow.
To say the film combines multimedia expression with meditations on the morality of agriculture would be to mislead as to the sheer fun to be had.
★★★★
There’s an organic quality to it, like something knitted together intentionally yet with varicoloured wool so that the eventual outcome could not be fully anticipated.
★★★★
