Firing Flares @ Unnoticed Glares

Redland(en)

As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.

What Was It Supposed to Be Like?(en)

Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.

The Two(ru)

Two men. Friends? Enemies? Lovers? Brothers? One is nothing, success or failure depends on two.

Quick Billy(en)

A psychedelic montage of home movie footage gives way to a silent western story.

Every Ambulation a Betrayal(en)

Return to 'burn' only to find out you're already in that urn.

Devil Come to Hell and Stay Where You Belong(en)

From a small cabin in the mountains of New York, Nina Breeder and Massimilian Breeder begin a journey across the United States. California is just the initial destination, but just as the edge of the surrounding landscape expands, so does their ultimate destination. A contemplation of nature and time along a raw journey in the American landscape.

We Could All Do With a Little Back & Forth As Far As It Concerns the To & Fro of Everywhere Each of Us Go(en)

(Some of us) Still run down the same [mental&emotional] streets we revered/reproached/replaced as children.

Pollice Verso Reverso(en)

A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.

I Might Be There (I Won't)(en)

Onward, upward, greener [redder] grasstures.

Aridity Enclosure 1(en)

Locked away but not away; somewhere nearby but unreachable, a periphery so notfaroff it's always in sight.

Out of the Law(en)

Beyond all human restraint lies one's lugubrious layers of paint.

Calangros: Um faroeste sobre o terceiro mundo(pt)

The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid(en)

Shot in the abandoned buildings of Gary, Indiana and the cornfields of Western Illinois, The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid presents a fractured historical narrative without any real protagonist, one in which the titular character goes mostly unseen - Billy the Kid as the always-off-screen assailant, as a ghost’s laugh, as a shadow on the road.

Entrance to the Grand Burial Chamber(en)

1 minute experimental film.

Hope This Goes Over Well/Living in an Empty World(en)

I really hope this is well-received. I really hope there's some sort of reprieve.

Grand Entrance to the World of the Dead(en)

Radical recurrences & rancorous requests raze my daze.

Hiding Under a Copy of the Strokes' Single 'Under Cover of Darkness'(en)

Hiding inside&out, writhing about, taken out&in.

No(thing) Staring Back(en)

On the Clickity-clack Express it's clear I'm always under duress, unless I forget.

Engel und Puppe(it)

Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political adaptation of some lines from Rilke's Duino Elegies, featuring the French poet Jacqueline Risset and a young Rossella Or (soon to become an avant-garde theatre actress).

Begotten(en)

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

Man in the Shadow(en)

In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff to investigate despite facing strong opposition. He finds an unlikely ally in the rancher's overprotected daughter, but their quest for justice puts them both in danger.

Decision at Sundown(en)

A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.

Gunslingers(en)

When the most wanted man in America surfaces in a small Kentucky town, his violent history -- and a blood-thirsty mob seeking vengeance and a king’s ransom -- soon follow. As brothers face off against one another and bullets tear the town to shreds, this lightning-fast gunslinger makes his enemies pay the ultimate price for their greed.

The Bravados(en)

Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.

Three Violent People(en)

A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.

Frontera(en)

After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learning of his imprisonment, Miguel’s pregnant wife tries to come to his aid and lands in the hands of corrupt coyotes who hold her for ransom. Dissatisfied with the police department’s investigation, the former sheriff tries to uncover the truth about his wife’s death and discovers disturbing evidence that will destroy one family’s future, or tear another’s apart.

No Name on the Bullet(en)

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

Barquero(en)

Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across river with most of the local populace--leaving Remy and his gang behind, desperately seeking a way across. A river-wide stand-off begins between the gang and the townspeople, both groups of which have left people on the wrong side of the river.

Union Pacific(en)

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

Return of the Gunfighter(en)

A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.

Firecreek(en)

A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.

Barbarosa(en)

Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don Braulio, a wealthy Mexican rancher. Don Braulio wants Barbarosa dead for marrying his daughter against the father's will. Barbarosa reluctantly takes the clumsy Karl on as a partner, as both of them look to survive the forces lining up against them.

A Big Hand for the Little Lady(en)

A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.

Broke(en)

A bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden blizzard while reflecting on how it became so difficult to achieve his dreams.

The Five(en)

A scorned woman enlists the help of five strangers to execute a bank robbery. Tensions rise as the men anxiously await her arrival with the money, leaving the crew to wonder if they have been betrayed.

Flaming Star(en)

Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.

Don't Come Knocking(en)

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...

Bonanza: The Return(en)

A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.

Jubal(en)

Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.

The Hired Hand(en)

Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and soon believes that all will be well again. But then Harry has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties and priorities.