

After years trying to trace her birth mother, Rose now has a name and a number. However, for as long as Rose can remember she has wanted to know who her biological parents are and the facts of her true identity. An only child, she has enjoyed a loving relationship with her adoptive parents. Rose (Ann Skelly) is at university studying veterinary science. However, as it soon becomes clear, these ageing men may just hold something much more valuable than even this prized delicacy: the secret to a rich and meaningful life. As a result of climate change, deforestation, and the lack of young people taking up the mantle, the truffle hunters' secrets are more coveted than ever. The demand for white truffles increases year after year, even as the supply decreases.

They're untethered to cell phone screens or the Internet, opting instead to make their food and drink by hand and prioritizing in-person connections and community. They live a simpler, slower way of life, in harmony with their loyal animals and their picture-perfect land, seemingly straight out of a fairy tale. They're guided by a secret culture and training passed down through generations, as well as by the noses of their cherished and expertly-trained dogs. Today, by learning the dance, a new generation reinvigorates the spirit of a community fighting to survive.ĭeep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years young, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science's efforts at cultivation.
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Through an extraordinary series of interviews, archival material, and uniquely powerful cinematography of movement, this 90-minute, lyrical documentary uses the story of this dance to illustrate the triumph of the human spirit in art and in the community. Thirty years ago, he embedded motifs of risk and sacrifice, love, loss and resurrection in the choreography for "D-Man in the Waters". Jones is arguably the most socially, politically and emotionally compelling choreographer alive today. As a group of young dancers reconstructs the dance, they learn about this oft forgotten history and deepen their understanding of the power of art in a time of plague. Jones/Arnie Zane Company felt as they were embattled by the AIDS pandemic. In 1989, "D-Man in the Waters" gave physical manifestation to the fear, anger, grief, and hope for salvation that the Bill T. Jones' tour de force ballet "D-Man in the Waters". Jones and D-Man in the Waters is a feature documentary that traces the history and legacy of one of the most important works of art to come out of the age of AIDS - Bill T.
