the homesman is a 2014 film
cinematographer rodrigo prietos harsh horizontal landscapeslike the haunting unsettling score by marco beltramiare anything but picturesque and reassuring and serve to support a strikingly bleak portrait of life on the 19thcentury american frontier
 the multimedia phantasmagoria shows that magic lanterns were popular from 1790 throughout the first half of the 19th century and could feature mechanical slides rear projection mobile projectors superimposition dissolving views live actors smoke sometimes to project images upon odors sounds and even electric shocks