Rastafarmer

2020 [currently in festival run]

Co-Director | Cinematographer

Rastafarmer is currently doing its festival run, it will be available to watch on this page in the next months. If you would like to know more about this short film, please email hello@janstockel.com

For Redz, a farmer living on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, being a Rastafari means not eating meat. But when it comes to slaughtering goats and selling their meat to build a business – well, that is an entirely different story. In this documentary short, we follow Redz as he goes about his daily routine walking the goats through his neighbourhood and making sure they get access to the best leaves growing on the top of the trees. While we observe this splice of island life, we also explore the apparent contradiction of a vegetarian meat farmer, where we are then prompted to think more deeply about our relationship with food and with nature.

CREDITS

Directors: Giulio Gobbetti, Jan Stöckel
Cinematographer: Jan Stöckel
Editor: Giulio Gobbetti

Runtime: 4’45”