Jerusha McDowell, High Country (DOCO 2025)

The traditions of mountain horsemanship are etched in Australian-folklore, Though numbers are dwindling, there are still those for whom the mountains are a way of life. This series is from an ongoing documentary project that explores a world beyond the comfort and complexity of modern life celebrating a vanishing legacy of horsemanship in Australia’s high-country. This series captures a plateau crossing in bad weather near Tabletop Creek in the NSW Snowy Mountains.

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