After the murder of his father by a local biker gang, Cole returns home to inherit his ranch despite his step-mother and brothers determination to keep it for themselves.
Dean extrapolated landscape images from 1920s Ford advertisements, leaving out the cars to focus on their representations of place and nature. She made the animation using a digital version of a multiplane camera technique employed in early Disney films to create an immersive and 3D illusion by separating two-dimensional images. This technique was itself inspired by Ford’s assembly line; Dean uses it to explore historical depictions of the American dream, exaggerating the subject matter’s fantastical style. [Overview courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art]
Aboard a passenger train enroute from Los Angeles to Chicago, a Christian movie actress named Mary meets an elderly woman and openly shares the struggles of her career and young faith. To her surprise, the lady next to her is 85-year-old Lettie Cowman, the author of the most beloved devotional of all time, Streams in the Desert. As the two women converse, Lettie reflects on the experiences and heartbreak that inspired her to write her famous book. As a girl growing up in small-town Iowa, Lettie falls in love with Charles Cowman, a telegraph operator at the Western Union office. A job promotion prompts them to move to a mining town in Colorado after marriage. However, Lettie soon becomes deathly ill, leading Charles to make a vow of service to the Lord that will change both of their lives forever.
“A celebration of the frontier spirit, this special highlights five of the legendary Black cowboys who helped tame the Old West. Today, these heroes inspire a new generation of cowboys and ranchers who keep that spirit alive and well.”
Staff Sergeant Blaine, a decorated sniper recently discharged from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Army Night Stalkers), goes back to his hotel to get some sleep. Due to PTSD and noisy surroundings, Blaine can't sleep and is compelled to take matters into his own hands.
In the abandoned Western town of „Fort Henry“, a man is coldly murdered by three outlaws. An eyewitness, who remains unseen, tries to hunt down the trio on his own.
A young man learns the hardships of growing up fast when his ill father can no longer care for him in the ever so depleting forest they used to rely on.
An impending gunfight moves from a conventional confrontation to a confrontation with audience expectation as camera action predominates. A film in which the less you see of what you expect - the more there is exposed.
In the wake of his father's murder, Riley seeks vengeance on an underbelly thug known as the Confidence Man, a gambler who never loses. Riley challenges his father's killer to a round of Russian Roulette.
A man known only as “The Farmer” lives a quiet life on his farm when one night the farm is ravaged and his wife is kidnapped. The Farmer must give his all to track down the gang and take them out
Chicago-based new media artist jonCates’ influential body of work mixes the urgency of punk with the poetics of glitch. His latest project, a glitch Western, takes shape as a feature film and interactive game that critiques the myths and ideology of the American West.
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