“A Brutal Kind of Beauty”: Kasimir Burgess on His Visions du Réel-Premiering ‘Iron Winter’

“A Brutal Kind of Beauty”: Kasimir Burgess on His Visions du Réel-Premiering ‘Iron Winter’

In 2024, 7 million livestock died in Mongolia due to what some say was the country’s harshest winter on record. Australian filmmaker Kasimir Burgess witnessed the disaster firsthand while making his third feature documentary, Iron Winter. The film documents two young herders, Batbold and Tsagaanaa, upholding a rural Mongolian tradition of winter herding—protecting horses from severe dzud and wolves by amassing them by the thousands and migrating…