鬼鎮 (Ghosttown), the Glitch Western

"i am very grateful that my 鬼鎮 (Ghosttown) series has shown internationally over the last couple years and is recognized by viewers, reviewers, critics, and curators as doing decolonizing work as a feminist project that queers and glitches the Western genre. 鬼鎮 (Ghosttown) questions the quintessentially American Western in the forms of experimental films and games that are made from glitches and noise, pushing boundaries of legibility and tipping over threshold states of stability. Glitch Art is the art of surprise, a gift delivered to us from the ways in which our technological systems behave unpredictably, malfunction, and/or misbehave. Glitch artists capture and perform glitch, glitch affects, and aesthetics. Glitch Western is an idea that i'm putting forward with precedents drawn from the cinematic categories of the Weird Western and the Psychedelic Western. My work is made for all yawl who are excited by expanding, critiquing, and (re)defining the 'Western' genre." - jonCates

written, directed, and edited by: jonCates

starring:
Siera Begaye as Herself
Vanalyne Green as The Voice of the Future Cowgirl
Emily Mercedes Rich as The Cowgirl
Lal Avgen as The Voice of The Cowgirl
林愛真 (Ei Jane Janet Lin) as 來自金山的女孩 (The Girl from Gold Mountain)

original musics by:
Morher (Ambrosia Bartošekulva)
洪梓倪 Hung Tzu-Ni
Cyrus Pireh
Ivor Lane
PREYER (Ebony Miranda and Adam Briggs)
dolphin midwives
That Faithful Engine, and those Blessed Instruments
Josh Spelman-Hall
jonCates

with:
Jeff Kolar, Supervising Sound Designer
Evan Meaney, Lead Interactive Designer and 3D Artist for Computer Generated Environments
Jason Boulware, RED Camera cinematography
Paula Pinho Martins Nacif, Decolonizing
Pearl Marie Salas, New Fire inspiration
Joshua Albers, campfire footage
Melissa Myser, Second Unit Director, Rocky Mountains
Jake Elliott, Unity scripting
Emily Kuehn, 3D model wrangler
Sara Goodman, Analog Glitches
Mark Klink, Glitched Skulls
Ian Keaveny, Special Glitch Effects
Kaspar Ravel, Butterfly Glitches
Marcus Thinh Anthony Thibodeau, Locations Manager