Cowboys
FILM
Phil Mulloy
AnimateTV 1991
1991
Duration: 18'00"
0'46" extract from Cowboys: Murder!
Grotesque Wild West goes vaudeville. Prairie tales in stark, dark ink to outrage and illuminate.
Six 3-minute episodes
Slim Pickin’s: Poor ole’ Josh finds he’s the victim of false promises.
That’s Nothin’: A few of the boys get together in the saloon.
Murder!: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The silent majority get their way.
High Noon: Clint and Chuck face each other out in the final showdown.
The Conformist: 'If you want to fit in around here, you best do what’s expected of yer'.
Outrage: The whole of Joseville is disgusted by the behaviour of their young folk.
Credits
Director Phil Mulloy
Music Alex Balanescu & Keith Tippett
Synposes
Grotesque Wild West goes vaudeville. Prairie tales in stark, dark ink to outrage and illuminate.
A series of six, three-minute films that comment on contemporary values through a reinterpretation of the myths of the old Wild West. Mulloy’s witty and acerbic fables, drawn in brush and ink, contain scenes calculated to outrage horses.
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