Ross McElwee travels through the North Carolina tobacco belt in search of the ancient southern traditions associated with tobacco growing and use, while comparing his filmmaking to commercial cinema, represented by Bright Leaf, a melodrama directed by Michael Curtiz in 1950, starring Gary Cooper, apparently based on the life of his great-grandfather.

Bright Leaves

The symphony of hands “DV Essay in Three Digital Movements,“ dedicated to “VORKI,“ inspired by Vorkapic's concept on visual and sound film structure amalgamation. Visual material is presented by the Italian renaissance masters' works (to John Purcell's' music), Serbian medieval frescoes (to Stevan St. Mokranjac's music) and contemporary photographs (to Charles Mingus's music).