Death Rides the Mess of a Lost Horse

Using footage from the low-budget sci-fi Mesa of Lost Women, and 'Spaghetti Western' Death Rides a Horse as inspiration, Death Rides the Mess of a Lost Horse explores genre through landscape, gesture, texture, and tone. We play with cinematic framing and editing techniques as well as archetypal narratives and silhouettes. A focus in our exploration is on ignoring the distinction between foreground and background.

Concept and Choreography by: elysse cheadle

Co-Created and Performed by: Robert Azevedo, Annie Therrien Boulos, and Iris Lau

Source material:

-Text score by Alex Mah

-This is East Van, a community photography project Creative Directors Jason Uglanica and Erin Sinclair

-Mesa of Lost Women Directed by Ron Ormond and Herbert Tevos

-Death Rides a Horse Directed by Giulio Petroni

photo by Sheng Ho