Los Angeles Premiere!

In a remote corner of Southwestern New Mexico, filmmaker Tamar Lando captures the final generation of veteran cattlemen in a world between industrial mines and protected wilderness—men whose herds and way of life are diminished by epic drought. Looking beyond the cowboy myth, the film reveals the deep, unsentimental ties between people and land.

A poetic story of intimacy with the land, Land With No Rider captures an experience rapidly disappearing from the American landscape.

Followed by a conversation with filmmaker Tamar Lando

The screening is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Desert Dreams and Coastal Currents, which explores the evolving identity of the American West through more than a century of art. Where the exhibition examines how artists have constructed the West through paint and canvas, Land With No Rider documents the lived experience beneath those constructions. More than a portrait of survival, this is a meditation on the ties between people and place — ties that endure even as the land changes.

“A stirring ode to the last few acres of the West.”- RogerEbert.com

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