Uncle Joh still has a farm

Trude Berge Ottersen
2010
50 minutes

 

It's not economically rewarding to be a farmer in Norway today. And because of this, there aren't many full time working farmers left. This is a close and truthful portrait of a stubborn and special man in his sixties - who refuses to quit being a sheep-farmer, even though his bookkeeper told him to.That's why my Uncle still has a farm. We follow my Uncle Johs and his wife Gerd in their life on the sheep farm from April to September, and get a glimpse into their everyday life. A lifestyle not many people appreciate anymore.

"This is not a serious sheep-movie, it only contains one lambing." 

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Visual Cultural Studies, The Arctic University of Norway
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Ecology
Animals
Work
Agriculture