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THE PINE BARRENS

By David Scott KESSLER

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Documentary - Completed 2022

Stories from a million-acre remote wilderness, where a culture grew out of a need for isolation and a devil haunts the charred landscape, all within the most crowded state in the most crowded region in America - New Jersey.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 103 mn
- Director(s)
- David Scott KESSLER
- Cast
- Allen CRAWFORD, Paul PEDERSON, Steven CARTY, Gary GIBERSON, Mary Ann THOMPSON
- Synopsis
- A wilderness sculpted by fire stands defiant of the encroaching megalopolis surrounding it. Once deemed inhospitable, the Pine Barrens became home to folks who today call themselves Pineys. Through a veil of folklore and myth, their sense of identity is inexorably linked to the diminishing island of darkness in a sea of traffic and lights within the most densely populated state in the nation - New Jersey.
  
  The Pine Barrens film is an epic tone-poem, where raging forest fires and crackling campfires generate rebirth of the ecology and identity of the land and its inhabitants and give a home to a dark creature that lurks in the forest. It is a celebration of a particular place, but one that casts doubt on its know-ability and our ability to discern reality from superstition. Through moments with individuals spanning several years, The Pine Barrens explores the symbiotic yet sometimes destructive relationship between man and nature.