Almost ten years ago Andrew Gregg, sound magician Mike Josselyn, 90th Parallel, and I, made ’The Tea Explorer’ documentary. Many over the years have asked when it will be available for a more general viewing. Finally, the piece which (still) airs on CBC Docs in Canada is out on Youtube. A friend recently sent me a link saying it had been up for about a year. Now it sits, accessible, up on Youtube...albeit with heaps of ads.
Three of us spent a month retracing portions of the Tea and Horse Caravan routes, documenting what we could that was still humming of the days of trade (and tea). Much of the journey was a realization that the memory-banks of the days of trade were largely all that was left. Memories and stray, windblown pathways through the mountains.
Our little endeavour was entirely fuelled by - and about - tea. It was too, a project that increasingly was about the people who interacted (and interact still) with the eternal fuel and those epic routes through the sky.
Link is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r9d83lqOtE&t=584s
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