REMEMBERED EARTH is a captivating journey through a storied landscape of the American West, featuring spectacular landscape photography and a thoughtful interpretation of land ethics by Pulitzer Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday. Noted Indian actor Irene Bedard (Smoke Signals, Pocahontas) narrates the film. The haunting original orchestral score was written by Academy Award-winner Todd Boekelheide.
REMEMBERED EARTH explores the relationships between people and the land, “exemplified by the ingenious use of clips of Hollywood Westerns that helped mythologize not just the Southwest but America itself.” (Washington Post)
The stark landscape of the desert southwest, at once beckoning and alienating, has left many of us at a loss for words. REMEMBERED EARTH provides an impression of this gorgeous corner of Northwestern New Mexico through stunning imagery and poetic descriptions.
From the transcript:
N. SCOTT MOMADAY (VOICEOVER)
Once in our lives we ought to concentrate our minds upon the Remembered Earth. We ought to give ourselves up to a particular landscape in our experience, to look at it from as many angles as we can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. We ought to imagine that we touch it with our hands at every season and listen to the sounds that are made upon it. We ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. We ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk. …
MOMADAY (V.O.)
It is here that I can concentrate my mind upon the Remembered Earth. It is here that I am most conscious of being, here that wonder comes upon my blood, here I want to live forever; and it is no matter that I must die.
[mjh: This is a beautiful show with countless familar sights of northeast New Mexico.]