For Love Of The Land
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Stories of Home, Land & Belonging
Our Founder
Cynthia Matty Huber is an independent documentary filmmaker and photographer whose work centers on intimate, character-driven storytelling and a deep respect for lived experience. Her films and photographs explore identity, resilience, belonging, and human connection, often focusing on people whose lives unfold quietly and whose stories are deeply rooted in place.
Working through an observational and immersive approach, Cynthia allows her subjects to reveal themselves in their own time and in their own words. She builds relationships over years, looking beyond the surface to understand the people, landscapes, and circumstances that shape a life.
She finds a subject and keeps digging, following a story through the work that made them, the place that sustained them, and the experiences that may ultimately outlast them.
At the heart of her work is a simple question: What does it mean to belong to a place, and how does that place become part of who we are?
“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Our Mission
Our mission is to create a continuing investigation into people and place.
I use my camera as a witness to build relationships with the people I photograph and to spend the time necessary to see beyond a moment. Often, that means years of returning, listening, observing, and becoming part of the landscape alongside my subjects.
The lives of the people I document are inseparable from the places they call home. My work explores that connection the emotional, physical, and often invisible relationship between people and the land that shapes them.
Through photography and film, I seek to make work that is not simply about a person or a place, but about belonging, memory, identity, and home.
Projects
A Continuing Story: John Hoiland
For years, Cynthia followed the life of John Hoiland, a Montana rancher whose family had lived on the same land for generations.
What began as a short documentary became a much longer exploration of home, aging, work, friendship, land, and legacy.
Rather than telling John’s story once, Cynthia returned to it again and again.
Where Home Has Always Been (2018), I Am Still Here (2019), and For Love of the Land (2021) form a body of work made over years of observation and relationship.
Together, the films ask a larger question:
What happens when the place that has defined your entire life can no longer remain yours?
Hard Twist
Through the Lens of Barbara Van Cleve
Barbara Van Cleve has spent a lifetime photographing the American West.
But before she became known for her photographs, she belonged to this landscape.
Raised on the Lazy K Bar guest ranch in Montana, Barbara grew up surrounded by horses, ranch work, family stories, and the people who came west seeking a particular kind of life.
Her camera became a way of preserving what she knew was changing.
Hard Twist follows Barbara through photographs, family history, archival footage, and memories of a Montana that few people have seen firsthand.
The film is not simply a portrait of a photographer.
It is an exploration of how a person becomes inseparable from a place and how, through photographs, memory can outlast the people and landscapes that created it.
Awards & Certifications
For Love Of
The Land
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
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