{"id":10958,"date":"2015-01-16T07:53:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=10958"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:15:00","slug":"short-experimental-western-film-the-magical-dead-sunstroke-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2015\/01\/16\/short-experimental-western-film-the-magical-dead-sunstroke-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Experimental Western Film: The Magical Dead Sunstroke Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sunstroke-Valley-Final-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11341\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sunstroke-Valley-Final-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sunstroke-Valley-Final-2\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A film combining the mythology of the Hollywood\/Spaghetti western, Tarot, magic, occult, Jungian psychology, and mysticism with flamboyant, multi-layered, supersaturated imagery.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple narratives conflict and adhere. Meanings emerge and contradict. Music and dialog tell another layered story, sometimes agreeing with the images, sometimes trying to subvert them.<\/p>\n<p>A film should be a container for the psychic unconscious energy of its creator. That is what this is.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a commercial.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/116264038\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A film combining the mythology of the Hollywood\/Spaghetti western, Tarot, magic, occult, Jungian psychology, and mysticism with flamboyant, multi-layered, supersaturated imagery. Multiple narratives conflict and adhere. Meanings emerge and contradict. Music and dialog tell another layered story, sometimes agreeing with the images, sometimes trying to subvert them. A film should be a container for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1081,2386,2281,2282,114,1349,353,8,148,2240,1458,1333,2246,1562,2400],"tags":[807,1545,346,825,2417,302,2515,25,2233,2401,2538,2416],"class_list":["post-10958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avant-garde-film","category-digital-art","category-experimental-film-2","category-experimental-video","category-film","category-independent-film","category-los-angeles","category-movies-by-us","category-poetry","category-psychology-2","category-short-films","category-spiritual-pursuits","category-tarot","category-underground-film-2","category-western-films","tag-avant-garde","tag-carl-jung","tag-cowboy","tag-experimental-film","tag-glitch-art","tag-hollywood","tag-los-angeles","tag-magic","tag-occult","tag-spaghetti-western","tag-tarot","tag-western"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10958"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11312,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958\/revisions\/11312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}