Screening: Quantum Cowboys

MOCAD and Cinema Detroit present the Detroit premiere of Quantum Cowboys. Enjoy free refreshments with beverages and cocktails available for purchase at MOCAD Café.

Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno (Kiowa Gordon and John Way), team up with Linde (Lily Gladstone) to recover her land and trek across 1970s Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician. The complex quantum time theory is blended with philosophical musings about art as the way we understand our history and memories, with gunfights, horses, dance halls, cacti, and saloons. 

“Tinged with plenty of psychedelic elements, nods to Led Zeppelin and philosophical ponderance, the film — based on an original story by Marslett and Howe Gelb, who crafted the film’s score — may just have one reflecting on their own reality long after the credits roll. Heady — and at times hypnotic — Quantum Cowboys is a trippy thinking-person’s flick.” – Kaylene McCort, Boulder Daily Camera

“A captivating out West fever dream that takes place across a surreal frontier. A patchwork tapestry of time and space, it follows the ill-fated duo Frank and Bruno on an inter-dimensional search for redemption along infinite timelines.” – Holly Jones, Variety