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Having arthritis since the age of four and using a wheelchair, Leonard "Stoney" St. Clair has lived an "extreme" life. By the time he was 15 he was a sword-swallower with the circus and carnival. At 16 he took up tattooing and became a master of the "old school" of tattoo art. Stoney is not only a talented artist but a raconteur extraordinaire. This highly spirited film features the camera work of the quirky Les Blank.

By interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960, Rouch and Morin reveal the hopes and dreams of a wide array of people and give us a document of a time and place with extraordinary depth.

"[D]epicts the twilight of a defining chapter in the history of the American West - the dying world of Western herders, descendants of Scandinavian and northern European homesteaders. The film follows a group of modern-day cowboys as they lead an enormous flock of sheep on an arduous 150-mile up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. A project that took nearly a decade to complete, this astonishingly...