
Sarah Polley
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
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The Mennonite's by Larry Towle
I understand that the visual language of the film was inspired by the first serious piece of art that you bought over 20 years ago. Can you talk about how it influenced the film? Yeah so I was obsessed with this series of photographs for so long and it's a book you can get called The Mennonite's by Larry Towle. They're these incredible very respectful, compassionate, beautiful photographs of Mennite's living in very conservative traditional colonies. We're telling a really horrific story about about something that did happen in a Mennonite colony at least the background events did in Bolivia in the early 2000s.
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