The First Story is the first film in a trilogy of "westerns." Here the central idea is Power in its various forms, especially as seen overland in the quintessential American West: the big rigs on I 90 and the freight trains crossing Wyoming. It is the contrast of these machines to the broad landscape and animal life that digs at this mythological space and questions what other meanings might be created.
A Western drama about two brothers who are in love with the same girl. When one of them wrongly thinks she has chosen for the other, he leaves for Mexico.
In the 1880's a ruthess gang of outlaws terroized the Southwest. These renegades were led by the notorious Bloody Jack Ryker and his top gun, Johnny Vermillion. Three men stood in their way. Stormy Lane and his two sidekicks, Cimarron Simmons and Texas Clapsaddle with the help of young Billy Wood pursue this band of cutthroats through the badlands of Texas.
Booger Red has been a failure all his life. With a little persuasion from his only friend, he makes one last desperate attempt to find the success ans self respect that has eluded him for so long.
“Burlesqueing western conventions, this film has silent movie titles and music and a posse of shetland ponies. A gumnut satire of Westerns with a fine eye for the absurd.” (The Australian Filmmakers Co-operatives Catalogue of Independent Film)
Pursued by a gang of bad hombres, Marty The Monk heads to a Mexican cantina. He is pursued by another villain, but is saved by an exotic dancer who is a big Marty fan. She gives him a private dance but the gang from before shows up and a rather graphic (for it's time) gun fight ensues. Who will be left standing?
After interviewing three Kingsbury locals, director Cait Davis used the audio from their interviews to create a stop-motion animation where the construction of each puppet “actor” is influenced by the content of the interview stories. From the inside of a fabricated miniature honky tonk bar, each character shares a story of their rural American home-town; examining small-town lore and the importance of embracing humanity's rich and textured history viewed through the lens of Kingsbury, Texas.
