Reviews
The Texture of Life -
The Tusing Sisters of Branch Mountain
Broadcast four times on Virginia Public Television (WVPT), 2006
Screened at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 2006
First Place, DAR Cultural Events and Traditions, 2006
Screened at the Algonquin Film Festival of Bucks County, 2005
"Best Cultural Documentary" --West Virginia Filmmakers Film Festival, 2004
"A lovely film. The Texture of Life beautifully captures a bygone way of life." --Filmmakers Library, Inc.
"Ray and Judy Schmitt have created their best film to date. This portrait
of two Hardy County
Mennonite sisters is a masterpiece, worthy of being shown anywhere. Their
visuals, the
soundtrack, including great music played by Gandydancer, their
re-creations of the sisters
lifestyle, and the use of a narrator telling her own story all combine to
make a film as
powerful as I have seen about people who have lived outside the
mainstream."
--By Steve Fesenmaier, film programmer and critic, Graffiti.
