Name: The Shooting
Start: 2026-02-26T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-26T21:00:00+00:00
Location: UMOCA

Jack Nicholson in The Shooting, dir. Monte Hellman, 1966

As part of the public programming for Altered States in the Acid West, this screening of Monte Hellman’s The Shooting (1966) presents one of the earliest and most influential acid westerns. Starring a young Jack Nicholson alongside Warren Oates and Millie Perkins, the film follows a tense desert journey set in motion by a mysterious woman and shadowed by an unnamed act of revenge, steadily unraveling the moral and narrative certainties of the Western genre.

Shot in the Utah desert, The Shooting strips the Western to its barest elements, using stark landscapes, withheld information, and mounting dread to transform the frontier into an existential terrain. Its spare, disorienting approach reflects the exhibition’s interest in the West as a psychological and ideological space—one shaped as much by absence, uncertainty, and pursuit as by myth or conquest.

Supported by Art Bridges Foundation

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