The Pine Barrens: documentary director's story

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  • čas přidán 8. 04. 2017
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    www.pinebarrensfilm.com
    Six years in the making, within the heart of New Jersey's Pinelands, The Pine Barrens is a film that explores the symbiotic yet sometimes destructive relationship between man and nature in the strange and unlikely wilderness within the most densely populated state in the nation. Through intimate moments with individuals in connection with the land, it reveals the influence of place on identity during a period of gradual loss, of both a way of life and of the environment that gave birth to it.
    Director/Producer - David Scott Kessler
    Music - The Ruins of Friendship Orchestra
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Komentáře • 52

  • @sirmagnifico04
    @sirmagnifico04 Před 5 lety +72

    Did you find the body of that Russian who killed 16 Czechoslovakians?

  • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
    @WouldntULikeToKnow. Před 5 lety +7

    I live in CA now but I miss the pine barrens so much it hurts sometimes. I hope one day to return. If I ever have kids they need to see and appreciate the majesty.

    • @newtoncooper4085
      @newtoncooper4085 Před 3 lety

      Can't you just smell the hot sand, pine sap, cedar water and the exhaust of 2 stroke engines on the Mullica?

  • @NJtuber88
    @NJtuber88 Před 6 lety +3

    Thank you for this! I miss the Pine Barrens.

  • @postalinVT
    @postalinVT Před 5 lety +12

    30 years since I've been. I MUST go back. Cranberry festival in Chatsworth....... Cold beer at the 4 mile tavern. Yep, gonna visit once more before I die.

    • @neesiexneedsxblunts
      @neesiexneedsxblunts Před rokem

      Do it! I absolutely encourage you! It's NEVER too late.

    • @postalinVT
      @postalinVT Před rokem

      @@neesiexneedsxblunts It *WILL* happen one day. I'd like to get a rental on LBI with "AFTER" Labor day rates.

  • @Anders010
    @Anders010 Před 5 lety +1

    Looking forward ro see it, great job!

  • @harleysantillanes394
    @harleysantillanes394 Před 4 lety +3

    This sounds amazing!

  • @spainter02
    @spainter02 Před 3 lety +2

    I grow up there in the sixties and seventies. I go back when I can to Browns Mills and Whits bogs.
    Picked many blueberries and cranberries there, back in the day. I tell my kids that the blueberries we would were the size of half dollars.
    Compared to the little things we buy today at the store that come from out the country.

  • @nativenygardens187
    @nativenygardens187 Před 6 lety +3

    Love to see the full length

  • @joshuasnore3600
    @joshuasnore3600 Před 6 lety +9

    Let's hope they stop the pipeline.

  • @gerritstell6248
    @gerritstell6248 Před 3 lety +2

    Way cool. I live in far northern Wi., and it looks similar. Love it.

    • @newtoncooper4085
      @newtoncooper4085 Před 11 měsíci

      Ironic, way back when, John McPhee wrote that the Pines looked like the north woods of Wisconsin.

  • @SAMEntalhealth
    @SAMEntalhealth Před 3 lety +1

    What other state has the pines in the fashion of NJ? Just got back from 4 wheeling out double trouble, but I want to ride in Wharton;-)

  • @defoperator7993
    @defoperator7993 Před 2 lety

    Very nice

  • @marktodd1513
    @marktodd1513 Před 2 lety +4

    Ironically many who live in the Pine Barrens would hate a documentary about their heritage. I can easily drive to this part of New Jersey.
    What I've personally found are many folks who could live off the land easily and wish for far less government intervention. Basically they simply wish to be left alone. It's pretty refreshing to go there for a hardy breakfast, and nobody has a cell phone out. You see, they don't mind having little to no Wifi.
    Rarely will you find a place in America where the people are exactly who they proclaim to be. What you see is what you get!
    So liberating
    Zero bullshit people ❗

  • @aclineman
    @aclineman Před 2 lety

    How can we view the film?

  • @opusjosh
    @opusjosh Před 5 lety +2

    So a sound engineer that has part ownership of Phillip Glass' studio, in NYC, lives in Chatsworth.

    • @opusjosh
      @opusjosh Před 5 lety +1

      Idk if you figured all that out already. But he lives on an old blueberry farm by oceanspray.

  • @lintownboy
    @lintownboy Před 6 lety +2

    Great video David. Have you seen the sopranos episode when they are in the pine barrens?

    • @SAMEntalhealth
      @SAMEntalhealth Před 6 lety

      Lindstenfoto haha it's hilarious

    • @johnmccormick9042
      @johnmccormick9042 Před 5 lety +3

      Only problem is it was filmed at Harriman State Park in NY. I love Harriman but it looks nothing like our wonderful Pine Barrens.

    • @droolingpine9658
      @droolingpine9658 Před 2 lety +1

      As i piney i knew right away that episode was nowhere in the pine barrens. Which is a shame because my home is so beautiful and creepy

  • @getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917

    4 years in the army kid, just follow your own footsteps.

  • @Edward_Monge
    @Edward_Monge Před 3 lety +1

    Where can I watch the documentary?

    • @davidskessler
      @davidskessler  Před 3 lety +1

      We've been doing special virtual events until we can do a full release. Best thing to do is subscribe to the newsletter at www.pinebarrensfilm.com to find out when we are doing the next one.

    • @Edward_Monge
      @Edward_Monge Před 3 lety +1

      @@davidskessler thank you I’ll do that.

    • @Edward_Monge
      @Edward_Monge Před 3 lety

      I just subscribed to your channel and to your update letters. I’m looking forward to watch the documentary, I’m a filmmaker as well and I love this topic. Thank you Scott.

  • @thomasgagliardi5931
    @thomasgagliardi5931 Před 5 lety

    If you need narration, I'd love to help. Our radio program has been doing SJ History/Pines History for years.

    • @davidskessler
      @davidskessler  Před 5 lety

      Thanks Thomas. The film is finished now and we are submitting to festivals. I'd love to hear some of your radio program though!

    • @thomasgagliardi5931
      @thomasgagliardi5931 Před 5 lety +1

      @@davidskessler Definitely. We were based out of Pemberton (i'm sure you know it) for 23 years on Saturday nights. The program which is mainly international now, still calls the Pine Barrens/Leeds Point area it's home. It's a progressive rock program called gagliarchives. Can I email you listening information? Kudos to the work. I would love to plug it and possibly have you as a guest. I am a self taught expert on SJ History. :)

    • @loucaviotto4193
      @loucaviotto4193 Před 3 lety

      How can we watch the film?

  • @KatWoodland
    @KatWoodland Před rokem

    Not enough long takes of landscape from a distance

  • @hemsurvival3413
    @hemsurvival3413 Před 3 lety

    I live in Penny pot the pine barrens are the best

  • @loucaviotto4193
    @loucaviotto4193 Před 3 lety

    Did they ever build that pipeline?

    • @davidskessler
      @davidskessler  Před 3 lety +2

      The one that I was following closely during the filming of this was approved by the Pinelands Commission despite massive protest and a letter by 4 former NJ governors claiming that it did not follow the Pinelands laws and would be harmful. That pipeline never actually happened though. BL England pulled the plug on it for financial reasons. A second pipeline was also approved and construction is nearly complete. The current governor made nominations that would change the makeup of the Pinelands Commission towards protections but those seats have remained unfilled because corrupt officials refuse to take a vote on them.

    • @loucaviotto4193
      @loucaviotto4193 Před 3 lety

      @@davidskessler dam that's a shame

  • @newtoncooper4085
    @newtoncooper4085 Před 3 lety

    Beer can pyramids in the pale moonlight.

  • @pineystrong7693
    @pineystrong7693 Před 5 lety +2

    I wish you had real pineys in your movie. I only seen 3 real pineys in movie.

    • @aclineman
      @aclineman Před 2 lety +1

      Gary Giberson the now deceased Mayor of Port Republic was in it RIP Mayor ……..

  • @glenm5034
    @glenm5034 Před rokem

    What a shame the Pine Barrens being flooded with litter by ingrates

  • @kingpuppo5880
    @kingpuppo5880 Před 2 lety

    I was going to go there once, but we saw a sign that said "bear left" so we went home