Synopsis:
Courtesy of the filmmaker
With the Nomads opens with
an elderly Tuareg man predicting that none of his people will still
be living as nomads in fifty years' time. It contemplates the
everyday labour of desert nomads with an intimate but unromantic
eye. There is no narrator: instead, Tuareg people speak of their
hardships, their distaste for city living and the nomad's fierce
love of liberty and open spaces. Extraordinary feats break in, too:
an
invasion of locusts, the castration of an angry adult camel and the
inspection of a well bottom by a man dangling from 65-metre ropes.
This is not an anthropological study but an individual film-maker's
response to the rhythms, dramas and personalities of a family, a
way of life and a place.
Synopsis:
With the Nomads opens with
an elderly Tuareg man predicting that none of his people will still
be living as nomads in fifty years' time. It contemplates the
everyday labour of desert nomads with an intimate but unromantic
eye. There is no narrator: instead, Tuareg people speak of their
hardships, their distaste for city living and the nomad's fierce
love of liberty and open spaces. Extraordinary feats break in, too:
an
invasion of locusts, the castration of an angry adult camel and the
inspection of a well bottom by a man dangling from 65-metre ropes.
This is not an anthropological study but an individual film-maker's
response to the rhythms, dramas and personalities of a family, a
way of life and a place.