Dirk Schaefer

Set to the relentless industrial rumble of train tracks and film leader, the latest film from the Austrian master of the avant-garde mounts a frenetic, flash-framed tribute to early cinema’s love affair with trains. All aboard a phantasmagoric journey into the flickering mechanics of moving images!

Using painstakingly artisanal methods, the Austrian avant-gardist turns Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly into a black-and-white celluloid spectacular: his “attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy.” A vividly reactive and highly combustible CinemaScope short.