The Highlands and Islands, Development Board of Scotland

The North West of Scotland, seen through the eyes of a young couple taking a Spring break. Starting off in Ullapool, the film shows a fishing trip to the Summer Isles, a drive in the mailbus from Badcall bay to Glencoul, the ferry crossing at Kylesku, a ceilidh near Scourie and many landscape shots, including Suilven and Stac Polly. Also known under working title ASSYNT.

In 1980, Jack Shae and Allen Moore, two ethnographic filmmakers from Harvard University, moved their families to the island of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides. Over the course of 18 months they documented the everyday lives and struggles of the crofters they lived among, whom were even then a vanishing breed. The film is in English and Gaelic. This carefully observed documentary by filmmakers Jack Shae and Allen Moore is a poetic ethnographic film in the style of their mentor, Robert Gardner (“Dead Birds”). It follows the rhythm of life on a wind-swept island in the Outer Hebrides through the four seasons and in the filmmakers’ observation of the day-to-day struggles of a vanishing society we see the deep-time legacy of their kind. The film is in English and Gaelic.

A look at the economy of the Scottish Highlands.

A look at how the landscape of the Scottish Highlands has been shaped by man.

A look at life in Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides.