The Sisyphean Solitude Of A Migrant Shepherd

Emily Buder, The Atlantic: Video
Mon, 11/18/2019 - 1:43pm

Some films don’t need words. El Desierto is one of them. Carly and Jared Jakins’s award-winning short documentary, premiering on The Atlantic today, follows a lone migrant worker as he shepherds thousands of sheep in the Great Basin desert amid a formidable drought. Without a single line of dialogue, the film’s imagery speaks volumes about the isolating plight of America’s migrant workers and the looming specter of climate change. The co-directors, who are married, grew up in the Great Basin, an arid expanse of nearly 190,000 square miles in the western United States.

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