Name: Raccolta d'inverno
Genre: Short
Released: 1986-03-05
Duration: 37 min
Rating: 6.4

Brian McKenzie made this documentary about a group of Italian families, all from the region of Calabria, who live near Melbourne, Australia and who meet for a weekend to slaughter a pig in the traditional style of peasant farmers. During the course of the event, we watch the actual graphic details of the slaughter, followed by the fascinating conversion into salame, sorpressata, and other smoked sausage delights for the "winter harvest", as well as meat to accompany the day's festive pasta meal. The film portrays people happy and extremely skillful at this labor and with a lovely sense of conviviality and humor. The film ends in music and dance and stories. We are also shown a comparison of this traditional process with the modern mechanized slaughtering of industrial slaughter-houses. Although private pig-slaughtering is said to be illegal in Australia, these families still perform it, and it is  a marvelous continuation of their historic regional culture. The dialog is all random, most of it in Calabrese dialect, some in heavily accented English. It is a little-known eye-opener and a real treasure of a film.

The short form refers to creative works characterized by their brevity and concise storytelling. Unlike full-length feature films, short films have a running time of less than 45 minutes, while TV shorts have a running time of less than 22 minutes.

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Calabrian immigrants near Melbourne slaughter a pig in the old fashioned, now frowned upon style and process the animal into various kinds of meat to enjoy later in winter.

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