In rural Iran, a man wakes in a hand-hewn cave, an ancient form of dwelling that is slowly disappearing. He rides his motorcycle through a desolate landscape, all the way back to his traditional house, where he resumes his daily rituals: eating his meals, tending his sheep and gathering fireweed. Next door, his wife silently convalesces in her bed. Shot in gorgeous black and white with stunning cinematography, LandStone is a record of a vanishing way of life; one structured by the internal rhythms of tasks that in the modern world have been taken over by appliances that serve the culture of convenience. Here, time moves unhurriedly, becoming a character in its own right in an extraordinary meditation on aging, mortality and a fading nomadic existence. Aisha Jamal
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