Peter Dunning’s farm is the focus of a new documentary that kicked off the summer film series at Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock on Saturday. (Photo Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)
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The inseparable nature of a Vermont farmer and his farm had some audience members turning their heads away at times from the white screen last weekend with the premiere of the documentary, “Peter and The Farm,” in the first of Woodstock’s 2018 Summer Film Series.
Life on the farm – not the glistening Hollywood version in which the camera angles away from the brutal butchering of an animal – but one in which filmmakers Tony Stone and Melissa Auf de Maur, who attended the screening, chose not to gloss over the process for the audience, but rather to bring it deeply into the reality of farm life spanning the course of a year.
“It’s epic and intimate,” said film director, screenwriter and professor of film studies Jay Craven, who was appointed Woodstock Film Series curator and director last spring.
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