L. Blackhorse Lowe (New Mexico)

THE LONG CENTER (Rollins Studio):
701 West Riverside Drive

April 29th @ 8pm

TICKETS: $8
Film Screening and Discussion with Blackhorse Lowe

Provocatively dubbed ‘the Navajo Tarkovsky’ by renowned Trudell director Heather Rae at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Blackhorse Lowe is indeed one of the brightest lights shining on the landscape of truly independent American cinema. Lowe’s body of work, 5th World in particular, has gained him international accolades for the unrelenting challenge it presents to conventional notions of genre, form, and identity.

Lowe shot 5th World (his first feature) on 16mm film with a budget of $14,000, using family and friends as actors, a close childhood friend as composer, and the epic New Mexico landscape as a central character. As haunting as it is timely and original, 5th World is the story of Andrei and Aria, two Navajo teenagers hitchhiking through their ancestral lands as they wrestle with questions of existence, cinephilia, and the possibility of love.

The work of Blackhorse Lowe has screened at festivals and institutions worldwide, including The Sundance Film Festival, First Nations\First Features at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and Toronto’s ImagiNATIVE Film Festival. Lowe is an alumnus of the 2006 Sundance Writer’s and Producer’s Lab and has served as a jury member on numerous festivals both U.S. and international, including Cine Las Americas.