“Looking into eyes as deep and diluted as bottomless oceans, while mine are shallow as the sand bar next to the shore.” – Lucianna See
By Ashish Seth
Words by Lucianna See, from her poem “A Farewell to Jesse”
The Wuf: A Soundtrack to an Unmade Movie
Directed by Ashish Seth
Tell a story with ten songs.
Genre: Spaghetti Western
Plot: In the midst of American Western Expansion, a young Algonquin man sees his people cheated, robbed and killed. In response, he becomes a masked vigilante and hunts down any who encroach his people’s lands. Using brutal methods passed down by the ancestors, he becomes a legend known to all as the Wuf, a symbol of hope and fear. As his legend and notoriety grows, a former sheriff gets together four cowboys and a playwright in order to write and perform a play about the Wuf in the new establishment of Elsmire, Illinois, his goal, to lure the Wuf into town and bring him to justice for the murder of his wife and children.
Soundtrack Playlist <– Click here to listen.
1. A Tribe Called Red – electric pow wow drum
2. Blur – Caravan
3. Portishead – Cowboys
4. Gonjasufi – Ancestors
5. Jose Gonzalez – Far Away
6. Flying Lotus – Zodiac Shit
7. Tricky – Keep Your Mouth Shut
8. Eskmo – Cloudlight
9. Burial – Forgive
10. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Revenge (feat. The Flaming Lips)
By Ashish Seth
Ashish Seth 