Independent Lens: Summer Pasture
Summer Pasture
Thursday May 10, 2012 at 11pm
'Summer Pasture' is the story of a young nomadic couple living with their infant daughter in the high grasslands of eastern Tibet. The film offers a rare window into a highly insular community seldom seen by outsiders. In the collective imagination of Tibet, nomads have traditionally occupied a dual role — romanticized as embodying the purest form of Tibetan identity and mocked as being backwards, uncivilized and inferior. Watch preview below.
Image Courtesy of Nelson Walker
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