Cowboy and "Indian" Film (1958)

The same year that Bruce Conner completed his famed A Movie, Montañez Ortiz destroyed a 16mm print of a banal Western, Winchester '73, with a tomahawk. He then placed the scraps of film in a medicine bag "to release the evil," intoned a ritual chant he had learned from his Yaqui grandfather, and spliced together the exorcised fragments in a random order.

Released

1958-01-01

Genres

Animation

Runtime

2 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Raphael Montañez Ortíz