Le Cowboy Noir

Switzerland
Biennale Images Vevey
2012
À la poursuite de Diamond Jo

Premiering internationally at Festival Images, À la poursuite de Diamond Jo is the first film by Le Cowboy Noir aka “the director who shoots faster than his own shadow”. The movie tells the crazy adventure of a diamond robbery in Lagos, Nigeria. Co-produced by Images Vevey, the feature film was shot in two weeks in Nollywood, second to India as the world’s largest film industry in terms of the number of films produced. The whimsical production was in fact directed by a collective led by Swiss photographer Claude Baechtold (Switzerland, 1972), that favors alternatives to a movie industry too often suffocating from time and budget constraints.