Episode #4: Songlines and Storylines and how to get lost...

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Inspiration from Bruce Chatwin's 'The Songlines', driving my Deux Cheveaux along the quiet French countryroads, looking for traces of stories.
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Walking to work, like the furnace workers used to in the 17th and 18th century, visiting the 'blast furnace' Le Haut-Fourneau du Dorlon, impressed with its almost religious beauty.
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Interview with Emilie and Patrick Lanher of the Ferme du Sart in Fresnois, Montmedy, which makes its own stories with new products and connections to regional customers, to be happy and make them happy with delicious sunflower and chameline oils…
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Some quotes from the video:
Driving along, getting lost
An important concept in Aboriginal culture is that the land and the people are one. Bruce Catwin combines his concept of songlines and how these lyrics have changed the way we travel.
Songs have become both route planners and identity builders. How do I find my way around? How do you connect to your surroundings? How do you connect to landmarks along the way, and how do you share experiences with others and with the next generation?
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Pranks and plastic
Driving along the Maginot Line this afternoon, I came across this field of large blue marshmallows. The number and the not so random pattern in which they are arranged makes me wonder if this is land art or maybe a prank like the great crop circles?
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Camera, soundrecording: Menno Heling
Editing: Menno Heling, Sascha Stouthamer
Sound design and colorgrading: Sascha Stouthamer
Music in this video: UA-cam music library
Music selection: Menno Heling
Chapters
00:02 Reel with summery
00:45 Opening monologue about Songlines and interview
01:24 Opening sequence with impressions of the region
02:21 Songlines and Bruce Chatwin explained
04:13 Encounter with a fox
05:28 Road to Louppy-sur-Loison
06:16 Marshmallow fields
08:23 Fixing the French doors
10:53 Tomatoes for lunch
13:00 Thunder and lightning at night
14:07 Walking to work at the blast furnace (Haut-Fourneau du Dorlon)
15:33 Arrival at the Haut-Fourneau du Dorlon
18:00 Intro to the interview
18:58 Interview with Emilie Lanher of the Ferme du Sart in Fresnois
21:34 Guinea fowls making lots of noise
24:08 Interview with Patrick Lanher about hier L'huilerie (suflower oil production)
35:56 Discovering the old Railway route to Verdun
37:45 Bonus video material for extra closure to the landscape...

[@ClosertoLandscape]

Use subtitles in French or English, or in your own language…
(white wheel, bottom right in your screen)

[@Stefanie-r7y]

Very intersting, that French farmers value their independence as entrepreneurs more than the ability to scale up their business idea. Thank you for the first hand insights!

[@anneheling3721]

Some of this reminds me of 'The secret garden'. Beautiful!

[@agnesulijn]

Heel fraaie video, Menno! Fijn rustig zodat je veel van de omgeving ziet. Top! Bedankt voor het uploaden.🙌

[@kreipesimona2322]

Absolutely love this Video. I ve watched it twice. It reminds me a bit of Andrei Tarkovsky movies. The quiet, the poetry , the beauty of the mundane..... Thank you.

[@ClosertoLandscape]

@@kreipesimona2322 super dank voor je compliment🤗🙏🙏😅🥰

[@PaulGies]

Fijn. Met ook interessante mensen uit de omgeving. Misschien een klein kaartje om te laten zien waar zij precies zitten Menno?
En die blijkbaar super gezonde Camelina olie ga ik snel uitproberen!

[@ClosertoLandscape]

Ik neem een flesje mee…

[@ClosertoLandscape]

🎉

[@bablukalu437]

Hello Menno, wonderful documentry !!!! Informative, don't know is it good for health India like hot countries but I should try 😅

[@elisabethvanderspek2206]

You guided me again into a beautiful landscape, and realising again that my French is not a the level to understand all that was said during the interviews.. but moreover Bruce Chatwin …and the Deux Cheveaux form a good pair to my opinion;-)

[@ClosertoLandscape]

You can turn on the Subtitles in English...

[@steveodevon1453]

@@ClosertoLandscape🙌 stefenwall83 thanks for the invite to watch ❤

[@marthaevans8270]

Am reninded of the 1986 films Jean de Florette amd Manon of the Springs set Provence before the wars. Based on fiction by Marcel Pagnol.

[@ClosertoLandscape]

@@marthaevans8270 Thanx Martha, honored!