In the short documentary “Herd,” the filmmaker Omer Daida follows a young girl grappling with her love for the natural world and her wish to help her father in his work. Watch here.
Daida’s style is a kind of studious, invisible immersion, and she manages to capture moments of intense, but unextraordinary, family intimacy.
Humans have been sharing their lives with sheep since at least 8500 B.C., before we lived with horses, cats, chickens, or ducks, before the invention of fenced fields, writing, or the plow. Sheep are gentle and cute , and the long process of their domestication means that they now rely on us for food and care. This can make it hard not to form a bond.
The documentary “Herd,” by Omer Daida, follows Na’ama, a young girl who helps her family look after sheep in a rocky, remote part of southern Israel. Na’ama is an animal lover. She pats the ewes that come up to her and doesn’t kill mice—she tries to catch and then raise them. She once had rabbits, but then one of her friends left the door open. Every Monday, her father, Itamar, drives lambs and goat kids to Haifa, where they are slaughtered.
Daida always intended to make a film about life and death, she told me, via e-mail. She lived for five years in the same region as the farm, and her initial idea was to film, over an entire winter, a truck driver who carries cows to slaughter. Then, when she was working as a waitress at a local restaurant, she met Na’ama and Itamar, who had come in for dinner. When they told her they ran a sheep farm, she realized that “this is the story I wanted to tell.
In “Herd,” the sheep, inevitably, start to form a kind of parallel family to Na’ama and Itamar. They are similarly pragmatic. To both, it is quotidian how life and death coexist. But sheep do not have the rituals of family that people do. Once her lamb is born, the mother sheep might lick the newborn if she is feeling kind—or, more likely, walk away. People have to parent.
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