Congratulations to LFS alumnus Wilhelm Kuhn, whose graduation film THE PORTER BROTHERS has been accepted into the Austin Short Film Festival.
THE PORTER BROTHERS is a European-made western. Sam Porter usually follows his older brother Ned. They ride together and rob banks. One night he gets captured by mysterious bounty hunters who offer to keep him alive only if he turns his brother in. Treading through the vast landscapes of the American Frontier, he discovers the price of redemption goes far beyond that of betrayal.
The film was Wilhelm Kuhn's thesis film for The London Film School. Wilhelm, a big fan of westerns, has always noticed the non presence of western in short-films and especially student short films. The lack of budget could be an explanation but his film is aimed at showing that it's an illegitimate one.
Wilhelm has said, "Drawing from a long tradition of European westerns (Sergio Leone, Corbucci for the Italians Karl May, Harald Reinl for the Germans), we had the idea of developing this genre in France, taking advantages of the wonderful landscapes in the region of Auvergne. After the desertic Spanish open spaces that could be seen in Leone's films in the 60s, the American Frontier has been re-created in the volcanic and continental atmosphere of the center of France."
Watch a featurette about the short here.