Dead Horse Point is a film that expresses my feelings of ambivalence for the western genre, and America as a nation. It is the fourth part in a series of North American landscape films that I have been shooting since 2003. It essentially deals with the notion of ‘the old west,’ ‘the frontier,’ the blurred line between historical fact and myth, the role of Hollywood in the historical process, the importance of celebrity in America, and finally the influence that the western landscape has had in defining the mythology of ‘the old west.’ (Jason Britski)
Also in this combined programme
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A Lapse of Memory
In a layered story about an old man in the deserted palace in Brighton, reality and fiction get mixed up. -
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Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2006
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 19'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
