Los Angeles Premiere

Presented in dialogue with the exhibition Desert Dreams and Coastal Currents, Land With No Rider extends the exhibition’s exploration of how the landscapes of the American West are imagined, represented, and lived.

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.

Where Desert Dreams and Coastal Currents 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, the film offers a meditation on the ties between people and place—ties that endure even as the land changes.

Followed by a conversation with filmmaker Tamar Lando.

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

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