Sas Carey
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Ways of Seeing: Essential exercise during isolation
Due to COVID-19, the border to Mongolia is closed, so I can’t go there. Film festivals are not in person. I stay home. A friend gets my groceries…
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Ways of Seeing: Thinking of mom and knitting hats
2011: The summer when my mother goes into hospice, I decide not to go to Mongolia and to spend as much time as possible with her. My plan…
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Ways of Seeing: Mongolia offers a meat adventure
Mongolia is a herding land with nomads and their 44 million goats, cattle, camels, horses and sheep. The favorite food is mutton from sheep. Mutton with noodles. Mutton…
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Ways of Seeing: Cultural identity slipping away
At the beginning of the millennium, I watched modernization take over the traditional nomadic culture in Mongolia at a fast rate and feared that the culture might be…
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Sas Carey’s new film documents transitions in Mongolian culture
MIDDLEBURY — Nineteen trips, three documentary films, and a book later, Sas Carey decided to do things a little differently for her fourth film about the nomadic reindeer…
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Ways of Seeing: Politeness customs can differ
The first time I was in Mongolia twenty-five years ago, my friend Kathleen and I were riding on a red and white bus with standing room only. We…
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Ways of Seeing: Work in Mongolia is a roller coaster
Our team is made up of two young women and me. Jen, an American, is taking videos to add to our latest movie and Mongolian Anuka is translating.…