• The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists

  • The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists

  • Gap-Toothed Women



The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists

Les Blank, Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon
United States, 1994

In Conversation

  • Maureen Gosling
  • Chris Simon
  • Gerald Gaxiola
  • Harrod Blank

The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists features a portrait of local artist Gerald Gaxiola, who has adopted the persona of a flamboyant cowboy. Colorful and perpetually inventive, the Maestro experiments with virtually every possible form of art. His life, as one of his close friends testifies, “is his greatest canvas.”

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • DCP
  • 54 mins
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  • Janus Films
Preceded By

Gap-Toothed Women

Les Blank, Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon, Susan Kell, United States, 1987

This lively examination of the folklore surrounding gap-toothed women also takes a feminist look at the larger picture: the cultural relativity of female beauty and self-image. There are Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, whose amorous proclivities are attributed to the abyss between her ivories; American model and actress Lauren Hutton, who always thought she was a homely thing thanks to “The Gap”; and lucky African women for whom gap teeth are considered a sign of good fortune.

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • DCP
  • 31 mins
source
  • Janus Films

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