The West Begins at Fifth Avenue
Dir. by Kryssa Schemmerling, Donald Gray
USA
17 min
2014
History and myth merge in this impressionistic mini-epic that imagines the birth and early life of legendary gunslinger Billy the Kid when he truly was a kid -- one of thousands of urchins trying to survive on the streets of 19th-century New York City's Lower East Side. The West Begins at Fifth Avenue draws visual inspiration from the photographs of Jacob Riis and borrows the cinematic language of early silent cinema to create an evocative, highly unconventional Western set entirely in New York City -- and in the mind.
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Credits
- acted_in
- Christine Sircusa , John Edmund Morgan , Jack O'Brien
- directed
- Kryssa Schemmerling , Donald Gray
- edited
- Sharon Hughes
- participated_in
- Kryssa Schemmerling , Eve Cuyen
- produced
- Claire Beckman
- shot
- Ben Wolf
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