ASHLAND Trailer: Wyatt Maw’s Visionary Love Letter to a Montana Community Premieres at DOC NYC This Weekend
Shot on Kodak 16mm over the course of 8 years, director/producer/
Here’s the official synopsis from DOC NYC:
A love letter to the inhabitants and vast landscapes of Montana, Wyatt Maw’s debut feature may be the closest thing to “a rest from the storms of life,” which is how one protagonist describes her hometown. Lyrical and pastoral, Ashland has a deeply authentic soul, as Maw follows several sets of Montanans over eight years. The expressionistic film’s editing isn’t literal or linear, providing a sensory, immersive impression of a world that you don’t want to leave.
“ASHLAND has been a journey 10 years in the making,” Maw said in a statement. “It started by accident – when I decided to take a job on a ranch for a summer in Ashland. I immediately fell in love with the place. It felt like time moved differently there. You could feel the presence of the generations all around you. The intense bonds with horses and almost spiritual connection to the land was profoundly moving to me. One could say that the Old West was still alive there just only in a slightly altered form. Shortly after arriving, the idea for a movie slowly started to reveal itself to me. And now, almost a decade later, we’re so excited to bring the film to NYC audiences as part of DOC NYC. Jaie and his team have been incredible to work with and it means the world to us that they see in ASHLAND the same things we all felt when we were making it. This film is an ode to the people and the place and the deep magic that resides within it. We hope that audiences will feel this as much as we do.”
See the trailer and poster below.
