The Mayberry Practice Calf2012

Name: The Mayberry Practice Calf
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012
Duration: 3 min

Radiating the radical simplicity of a Lumière actuality, THE MAYBERRY PRACTICE CALF shows an African-American cowboy roping a hunk of tire again and again. "Calf roping is a discipline," Kevin Jerome Everson told an interviewer. "People practice it, they know the language of it and they know how to do it." Everson's camera evinces a comparable degree of discipline, with a single long take functioning as a montage through the serial repetition of the cowboy's action. We may wonder if we're watching a loop but gradually our eyes are drawn to small variations. Practice makes perfect. - Max Goldberg

Released: 19. 4. 2026
Runtime: 3 min
Genres: Documentary
Certification: NO
Country, language: EN

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