Dry Wood (DVD)

Dry Wood by Les Blank with Maureen Gosling. The featured music is that of Bois Sec Ardoin ("Bois Sec" meaning "Dry Wood), his sons and Canray Fontenot. Theirs is an older, rural style of Cajun music, which, in the film, weaves together incidents in the lives of the Fontenot and Ardoin families. The film's highlights include a rollicking country Mardi Gras, work in the rice fields, a "Men's Only" supper, and a hog-butchering party that takes the hog from the kill to the sausage. It expresses respect for living life simply, lovingly, openly, and slowly. 37 minutes.