Movies

Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa

White Tiss

Long Low Line (Fordland)

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]

Crooked River

Set in America’s West, the true story of a family’s generational wealth is revealed through the legend of a father and son who rob a prospector.

The Outlaw and the Baby

Joe Fuller, the outlaw and bandit, draws rein at a humble cottage and begs refreshment. The traditional hospitality of the west is at once shown him by Jane White, who is alone in the house at the time, with her baby daughter. The bandit is given food and drink, while he is eating which, the baby takes a child-like fancy to him.

Huntin' Trouble

A peace-loving cowboy who must overcome his pacifist convictions when a good friend is found murdered.

The Can Opener Kid

A bounty hunter armed with only his trusty can opener hunts down a criminal, meanwhile a rival bounty hunter is close behind.

Ten Paces

Two gunslingers attempt to have a duel.

The Old Cowboy

An old cowboy is walking across the prairies. It seems that he has experienced everything. However, he will have to face his opponents a few more times - maybe it will be for real, or maybe it will take place in his mind.

Peggy Ray

An orphaned girl in a western world ends up with two incompetent bank robbers. These two brothers are in a heap of trouble - they owe money to the nasty El Queijo.

Bananza!

The Bounty

On his hunt for a wanted deceiver, a cunning bounty hunter gets captured by another notorious bounty hunter.

The Death of Paco

After a harsh winter, the inhabitants of a small Valencian village prepare to celebrate a wedding. An unfortunate accident pits the men and women against each other. The cunning Mayor decides to use this to his own advantage.

Tumbleweed Town

The animated adventures of "Tonka Tom" a gay plastic cowboy. Hitch-hiking, two-stepping at the local gay bar, and enjoying a campfire with a friend and his trusty dog.

Interstates

An escapist hacker and his high-tech counterpart journey through surveillance state America, crossing frontiers that test their friendship and ignite a fight for independence.

Al Dente

A short Finnish Western film.

Sepelio de Emiliano Zapata

A footage showing a crowd coming to Cuautla for the famous revolutionary leader's funerals.

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