A film about the black head Carranza sheep and the ways of subsistence cattle related to them in Karrantza Valley (Bizkaia, Spain). A series of seven in-camera edited Super-8 reels explores the link between grass, sheep, feeding, wool, milking, cheese, threads. It is a project that began with the recalling of first moving pictures of sheep (MOUTONS ENTRANT À L’ABATTOIR, Lumière Brothers, 1896) and with the correlation between wool spinning and the film rolling pace.

Sheep Reels 1-7

Conceived as an exploration of both harbour piloting areas and Bolex manoeuvring, the film alternates between the studio’s editing table at the facilities of Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto and various locations on the West shore of Lake Ontario.