Pioneers
Director Charles Fairbanks
Countries United States
Duration 35 min
Synopsis
Pioneers is a portrait of industrial agriculture and new-age spirituality in rural Nebraska, focusing on the artist's parents. It is also an unwitting self-portrait of a director returning to the place he grew up, where he feels both the comforts of home and the alienating weight of the past. While Pioneers shows us remarkably different worldviews coexisting on the Great Plains, under the same roof, it also unravels complex facets of identity, belief, relationships: the ways we resist and inhabit one another.
Pioneers is a portrait of industrial agriculture and new-age spirituality in rural Nebraska, focusing on the artist's parents. It is also an unwitting self-portrait of a director returning to the place he grew up, where he feels both the comforts of home and the alienating weight of the past. While Pioneers shows us remarkably different worldviews coexisting on the Great Plains, under the same roof, it also unravels complex facets of identity, belief, relationships: the ways we resist and inhabit one another.