Quantum Cowboys

Director(S)

Geoff Marslett (The Phantom 52, Mars)

Synopsis

Quantum Cowboys is an old fashioned western about two haplessly charming drifters, Frank and Bruno, who team up with Linde, recover her land and trek across 1870s southern Arizona in order to find an elusive frontier musician. But it is also the director’s love letter to Quantum Physics, Animation, Music and Memories. Through a combination of Hugh Everett’s Many Worlds Theory, Erwin Schrödinger's Paradox of Quantum Superposition and Richard Feynman’s Posterior and Anterior Time Wave Theory the film presents human memory as only comprehensible through art…and each type of art in the film in turn represents its own competing timeline. Using a vibrant mix of 16mm live action film, paper cut outs, hand drawn animation, oil paintings, 8k video, collages and digital animation, with live musical performances by Neko Case, John Doe, Howe Gelb and Xixa. The wide-

Year

2022