Created as a site-specific installation, Trick Saddle, sets a Spaghetti Western underwater to critique the absurdity of gender roles— “masculinity” staged as a synchronized underwater cowboy ballet.  Originally shot in digital video, the film was later transferred to 35mm so that it could be screened as a drive-in movie.  It debuted at the dilapidated Starlite Drive-In, located in State College, Pennsylvania, where the film was accompanied by 20 female performers, dancing live on the hoods of cars under the big screen. Trick Saddle was later developed into a full-length theatrical piece so that we could bring the drive-in indoors to New York City. 

 

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