04 Jul 1969
All My Good Countrymen
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
LOOK & SEE: Wesley W. Bates - Wood Engraver
Wesley W. Bates - Wood Engraver - Friend of Wendell Berry
One of the great pleasures of working on LOOK & SEE was collaborating with artist and wood engraver Wesley W. Bates. Wesley's work has long accompanied Wendell Berry's poetry. When he agreed to provide original images for our film we were truly thrilled. Because each image involves such painstaking effort, we asked Wesley to film a block from start to finish. At two hours long, the video is a distillation of three days of his effort. And Wesley provided over ten such engravings along with the film's signature block of Wendell Berry.
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Wesley W. Bates Himself
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