Anthology Film Archives

EXPERIMENTAL WESTERNS, PART 1: AVANT-GARDE WESTERNS

Ben Rivers’s deeply unsettling yet visually and texturally exquisite film was shot during the filming of Oliver Laxe’s film, MIMOSAS, and features Laxe himself in the central role. Part documentary, part fable, it is a reimagining of Paul Bowles’s brutal short story, “A Distant Episode” (1947).

Wiseman’s 1985 documentary is about the Belmont Race Track, one of the world’s leading racetracks for thoroughbred racing. The film highlights the training, maintaining and racing of thoroughbred horses.