A queer rodeo is the backdrop to a tremulous burgeoning relationship
It’s rare to see a film that’s based on a photo essay. Rather, the photo essay of the same name came first. Art and fashion photographer Luke Gilford published his monograph about the International Gay Rodeo Association,, brings that same community to touching fictional life.
It’s clear that Gilford wants the riders of the IGRA to see themselves in the fictionalized community that he portrays, the community established by the charming and coquettish Sky and gruff ranch manager Pepe . They’re not outcasts. This is their home, their place to be – which is exactly what Dylan lacks.
Yet the community quickly becomes background, as Gifford is far more interested in the tremulous burgeoning relationship between Dylan and Sky, and the ultimate limits of it when Sky’s already got Pepe. Gilford’s story in one of heartbreak and growth, under azure skies that he and cinematographer Katelin Arizmendi . It’s not a grand landscape but a small portrait of wistfulness and wanting in the West, fluttering and touching.
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