Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge

Hard to describe how Blank & his often "outsider" (read: insider) collaborators film nature--the simple methods merge their remarkable subjects and those subjects' remarkably unremarkable surroundings with a sense of continuous re-enchantment that brings to mind Wendell Berry on a battered old bucket on his family farm: "I never go by without looking in. For what is going on [inside] is the most momentous thing I know, the greatest miracle that I have ever heard of: it is making earth."