34 minutes of sheep content and somehow you'll be emotionally invested in wool prices.
Before shearing, done with electric devices and hand shears, lambs are separated from the flock. The lambs are not yet shorn but dipped in a disinfectant, parasiticidal liquid prescribed by law. For the auction, held in autumn, the sheep for sale are loaded on special trucks and transported from the pasture to the public sale.
Cinematography
Misty Highland landscapes that make mud look poetic.
Practical Effects
Genuine 1980s shearing techniques, no reenactments.
Director
Armin Prinz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Armin Prinz was a German filmmaker who made several agricultural documentaries in the 1970s-80s, suggesting this was part of a larger ethnographic project on European rural labor.
The 1980 timing captures Scottish hill farming just before EU agricultural policy shifts dramatically transformed traditional practices like these autumn sales.
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