Sufjan Stevens Rodeo Doc Round-Up Trailer Released

Sufjan Stevens Rodeo Doc Round-Up Trailer Released

Round-Up is a documentary about the Pendleton Round-Up, an annual rodeo that takes place in Pendleton, Oregon. It was co-created by Sufjan Stevens and Aaron and Alex Craig and features original music from Stevens, who’s set to live score screenings from January 20-25 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater. Now, there’s a trailer for the movie, which you can watch below via The Playlist

Stevens also spoke with The Playlist about the movie, which was edited down from 60 hours of footage to 75 minutes. “The film is part of a much bigger argument about the domestication of plants and animals and man’s relationship to the earth,” he said. “It’s an existential issue that I think is crucial to have conversation about: man in modern society. We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.”

He called Round-Up a companion piece to The BQE, his multimedia work about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. “The BQE was a visual investigation of modern industry on the east coast, the effects of modernism on urban living,” he said. “The second is man immersed in nature, and our film is a manifestation of a performance (the round-up) based in agricultural society. If it’s about anything at all, it has to do with man in nature.”

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