Two Plains & a Fancy

Director: Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn

2018 / 89min / DCP

Three tourists—identified as a Dandy Watercolorist, a Mystic/Reformed Confidence Woman, and a Lady Geologist from France—wander the untamed landscape of c.1893 Colorado in Kalman and Horn’s anachronistic absurdist slacker Western, which follows its principles through encounters both terrestrial and supernatural, en route to a confrontation with an astonishing and unexpected geothermal event. “Forgoing sepia-tint past-tense pastiche in favor of Super 16mm richer than any filter, the film embodies a past that hardly seems stable…The sense of humor is an alchemy of laid-back hipster-hangout banter and what Kalman describes as the ‘aggressive absurdism’ of the David Wain school of meta-comedy.” —Film Comment

Q&A with filmmakers Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn on Saturday, November 16th