The Good The Bad The Stupid And The Fugly In The West
Populaire Films
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.
A train full of people of different sex, age and social status meets many dangers including a robbery and an Indian assault.
The reconstruction of a body is for two friends the starting point of a journey into the wilderness of the old west, into a world where only those who have come to terms with death have figured out how to live.
In the Old West a man has to face a deadly zombie contagion that made all his family die.
Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.
A duel in the spaghetti western style, showing two gunslingers and a photographer.
When "Billy the Liar" kidnaps a young girl's dog, she calls on her friends and the local child sheriff. He sets off in pursuit but is waylaid by Indians but manages to capture Billy who is sentenced to a severe whipping.
An impending gunfight moves from a conventional confrontation to a confrontation with audience expectation as camera action predominates. A film in which the less you see of what you expect - the more there is exposed.
Wild West performer Pedro Leon is the highlight of this three-minute film that shows how cowboys make rope and various other items. Within the three-minutes we learn that horsehair is the best thing to use so we see a couple men, including Leon, put the hair together and from here we see how they get it prepared to use for rope and other items.
A cowboy advertises for a wife. A shop girl in Chicago responds, and he travels there to see her. Once he gets there, however, she changes her mind. Ashamed to return home empty-handled, the cowboy uses a mannequin in a woman's dress to fool his friends into thinking he has a wife.
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.