Saddle Sores (1998)

Video artist meets a handsome and enigmatic Marlboro Man video artist gets a sexually transmitted disease In a wry and pointed work thats part Ibsen and part Danielle Steele Vanalyne Green reworks the sexeducation film to take a critical look at cherished stereotypes about romance the American West and cowboys Expanding on a body of work that investigates the idea that public spaces are gendered Green revisits the myth of the rugged outdoors and the West will never be the same By combining elements of silent movies and classic Westerns the director weaves an hysterically sad tale of purity and contamination in an hysterically funny way