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Into the Field

Name: Into the Field
Released: 2005

Directed by Alyssa Grossman

2005 – 28'

Synopsis

Into the Field’ follows the everyday “secular” lives of nuns in a Orthodox nunnery in Romania. Documenting the nuns’ activities, relationships and roles within their community, the film also incorporates sequences of stop-motion animation to depict some of the anthropologist’s own challenges of working in the field.