Country: USA
Year: 2025
Duration: 80'
In a remote corner of Southwestern New Mexico, the last cowboys eke out a fragile survival between industrial and protected lands. Their herds diminished by an epic drought affecting large parts of the American West, these veteran stewards of the land live in a shrinking world of isolation, vulnerability, and memories.
Biography
film director
Tamar Lando
(Usa) is Associate Professor of philosophy at Columbia University and a documentary photographer and filmmaker. Her still images of the Mimbres River Valley, NM were exhibited at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles as part of the program Women in a Man’s World: Filming the Modern Cowboy. Her short film Our Mother the Mountain screened at Sheffield International Documentary Festival in 2020. Land with No Rider is her debut feature.
FILMOGRAFIA
Our Mother the Mountain (doc, cm, 2020), Land with No Rider (doc, 2025).
Declaration
film director
“As a woman director working with a largely female team, I bring a revised understanding of the American cowboy. Far from the romanticized stuff of Western myths, the main characters tell of loss and fragility in a changing environment; a transforming country that has largely left these men behind. These are the last stewards of lands that held promise for generations, lands that still today retain something untamed and inscrutable. At 80 years old, these cowboys have a relationship to the land that is unsentimental but true, a knowledge of its dramatic possibilities and devastations. The film steers clear of easy tropes, revealing instead the inner lives of these famously laconic men.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Tamar Lando. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gareth Paul Cox, Carolina Costa. FILM EDITING: Brad Fuller, Charlotte Bengtsen, Tamar Lando. MUSIC: Nathan Halpern. SOUND: Peter Albrechtsen. PRODUCION: Tamar Lando, Judith Mizrachy, Hunter Robert Baker for Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
CONTACT: Tamar Lando tamarlando@gmail.com
