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A year after his suicide, the Nomad returns from the dead. He wanders aimlessly until he finds a compass that shows him the way, secretly hoping to forget his fears and responsibilities along the road. Other wanderers join his quest, unsure of where it will lead them.
Even if you are small, you can still act big.
Setting West was made using original printing materials from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as wood type, borders and stereotypes of “Cowboys and Indians”, trains and bison. These words and images were printed directly onto 35mm clear film stock at eminent letterpress studios in North America: the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago, the Hatch Show Print in Nashville and the Musée de l’imprimerie du Québec & Lovell Litho in Montréal. Judith Poirier printed 1,643 feet of film to produce her abstract western and her technique of printing onto celluloid creates a unique texture on screen, as well as generating an original soundtrack. Setting West reinterprets a classic cinematic genre while exploring a formative period in the history of typography and printing.
In The Struggle (Broncho, 1913) a prospector and his son Bob depart from home in the morning, while the wife, at home, offers food to a passing stranger. His shifting eyes reveal his nature; he assaults her, and although her husband and son return in time to save her, the father is killed in the ensuing fight. The stranger gets away, but five years later Bob, now a government scout, recognizes the stranger just as he is accused of cheating at cards.
The sheriff loses his office and a new sheriff comes in. Now the ex-sheriff is going bad, drinking, etc., with no ambition. The tough guys take advantage of his loss of ambition and indignities pile up on him and he makes no protest. He meets the new sheriff's little boy and they become fast friends.
After an embarrassing encounter with his crush, socially awkward Boy Scout Brody finds his life uprooted when an old west cowboy mysteriously appears in the wilderness. Although an unlikely pairing, Brody and the cowboy find themselves learning things about each other, as well as themselves.
This western, with its simple story set in a gold mining camp, recycles many of the elements found in David Belasco's influential play, THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, produced a decade earlier.
A Canadian prairie farm family has a tough beginning on their new farm.
The hero must solve the murder of his benefactor within six months in order to inherit a valuable ranch.
Mustang and Slim are on very friendly terms. The same may be said of their wives, and when Slim's wife warns him that it is Friday the 13th and beware of friendship, he scorns her.
Two brothers; Nick, an athletic high school football star and Mark, a rising name on the rodeo circuit have always been rivals. But, after a family tragedy, the competition heats up for their father's attention. Otto Thorwarth teams up with world champion bull rider Scott Mendes to deliver this Western-style, modern-day story of the prodigal son.
Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.
A 1917 Western starring western star Tom Mix.
Our hero is mistaken for a bandit. Al's girl Nancy at first believes him to be guilty, but he manage to convince her that the real bandit is McDonald.
The Fightin' Terror is a 1920 silent Western.
When a quirky but deadly outlaw returns to town, it's up to a masked hero to gather a group of misfits to save the townspeople from the wrath of Todd.
A train traveling through the Rockies is held up and boarded by two thugs. They rob the wealthy occupants at gunpoint and then make their getaway by handcar. From there, they hijack a horsecart on a road running parallel to the tracks. Will justice prevail in the end?
A Driver enters a forbidden zone outside Los Angeles to retrieve a briefcase and deliver it without opening it.
A unique sliver of the era of backyard films shot on eight-millimeter film — a true space western with family and friends, featuring shootouts, an atomic explosion, and a space jump.