Leche
Naomi Uman, 1998, US, MX, 16mm, 30'
The film focuses on a dairy farm family in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Naomi Uman lived with them for a year, shooting and hand-processing the black and white 16mm film in buckets to dry on the clothesline on-site. A documentary portrait of the daily life of this family, filmed at close range with care and fascination. It is also a portrait of the filmmaker’s learning relationship with the people and space she films in an attentive exercise of listening and looking.
