Auction

I was living in Austin, Texas at the time and was curious to explore rural East Texas, a very foreign land to my city roots. The irony being once I arrived, the first rancher who greeted me with a friendly handshake called out to his friends that they had “a foreigner over here”. I love as a filmmaker to explore different worlds and the camera gives me permission and reason to do so. The cowboy and small town Texas cultures is a world within its own. Many families go back five to ten generations where their ancestors were wrangling cattle across state lines on horseback. As the auctioneer in the film states selling cattle at the Auction was a way of life and would give money to buy necessities in town. And back then it was very happening on the town square where now it is desolate. Maybe I have an overly strong nostalgic gene in me but I can empathize with the cowboys’ sentimentality of a past way of life. I hope with this film that the viewer can catch a glimpse of this feeling, this world and how it is today.