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Farmer's Requiem
Directed byRamses Madina
Produced byRamses Madina
CinematographyBernard Cousineau
Edited bySteven Legge
Ramses Madina
Production
company
Farmer's Requiem Productions
Release date
  • September 12, 2007 (2007-09-12) (TIFF)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Farmer's Requiem is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Ramses Madina and released in 2007.[1] Shot primarily in the rural Carp and Woodlawn areas of Ottawa, the film documents the decline of farming as a way of life through a portrait of the area's declining and dilapidated old farms.[1]

The film premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.[2] It was subsequently screened at the Ottawa City Hall art gallery as the centrepiece of a two-month exhibition on the history of farming in the Ottawa area, alongside Madina's still photography of farm imagery.[1]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films in 2007.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Patrick Langston, "Requiem for a farm; Artist captures the beauty of a vanishing way of life". Ottawa Citizen, November 14, 2007.
  2. ^ Bruce Kirkland, "Short but sweet; The future of Canadian cinema is on display". Toronto Sun, September 4, 2007.
  3. ^ Chris Knight, "TIFF goes peddling its celluloid bundle; Canadian Cinema; Top 10 includes Cronenberg, Maddin, Arcand". National Post, December 12, 2007.