Metaphorical and image driven, The Cowboy and The Ballerina is a film portraying a ballerina at the end of her career, performing her final dying swan dance to an apathetic audience. The Cowboy senses her and rides in from the old West into the contemporary dance theater, where the spirit of dance watches intently over the end of the ballerina's career, and the new beginning of her childhood dream coming to reality as the Cowboy takes her away into the classic riding off into the sunset. Beautifully scored, the film has no dialogue and is a homage to both Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns and the beauty and grace of dance. Any athlete or dancer who has faced the end of their career should be able to relate. Old fashioned and romantic, the images are metaphorical and often misunderstood or not understood at all. A true art piece shot on 35mm film and cut by hand.
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