Alone in the Wilderness
The Eco Film on Friday, April 16th:
Alone in the Wilderness
Genre: Documentary. Director: Bob Swerer. USA, 2004. 57 Minutes.
Imagine… a life in a pristine land unchanged by man, roaming a wilderness through which few other humans have passed. Choosing an idyllic site, cutting trees and building a log cabin. Being a self-sufficient craftsman, not at odds with the world but content with one’s own thoughts and company. This is the dream of thousands, but Dick Proenneke lived them. In the late 1960’s he abandoned his ‘normal’ existance and found remote land to call his own, built a cabin and stayed to become part of the countryside that surrounded him. This documentary, mesmerising in its calm beauty, covers his first year ‘Alone in the Wilderness’, and is a simple account of the day-to-day explorations and activities he carried out alone, and the constant chain of nature’s events that kept him company.