Directed by Mario Ruspoli • Documentary • 1961 • 36 minutes
Ruspoli had a standing interest in isolated and marginal communities, very much on display in three films he shot in Lozère, in France’s rugged, unforgiving south. In The Earth’s Forgotten, the subjects are peasants eking out a subsistence-level existence.
Directed by Mario Ruspoli • Documentary • 1958 • 25 minutes
A vanguard short that displays the range of Mario Ruspoli’s insatiable curiosity and the depth of his talents: The Whalers, an influential portrait of the last whale fishermen, living in the Azores, to work with harpoons.
