Mia Mask

Black Rodeo: the cinematic wild west re-envisioned

A recent BFI season ‘Black Rodeo’ paid homage to the counterculture phenomenon of the African American ‘western’ and its bold repudiation of mainstream Hollywood tropes. At the European premiere of Outlaw Posse, his latest auteur take on the genre, actor-director Mario Van Peebles sat down with Mia Mask, the season’s curator and professor of film at Vassar College, New York, to discuss his work in the genre.