Tamar Lando’s debut documentary feature, “Land with No Rider,” follows the everyday lives of aging cowboys in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico. RogerEbert.com called the film “a stirring ode to the last few acres of the West.”

On today’s episode, Tamar talks about the long, slow process of making the film – a decade-long labor of love – and how that slow process contributed to the film’s authenticity. She also discusses the “cowboy code” that the men live by, which contrasts markedly with the hypermasculine image of cowboys in Hollywood Westerns and the alpha male culture of today’s internet manosphere.

“Land with No Rider” will be screened at Sky Cinema in Santa Fe beginning on April 17 and at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque beginning on April 20, 2026. It will also be screened at the 2026 Taos Film Festival.

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