This weekâs film is âSurveyor,â an âanti-Westernâ by the local director Scott Blake. Everything about âSurveyor,â which is set in the Western frontier at the end of the American-Mexican war (1848) and runs for 25 minutes, is just greatâthe cast (David Kulcsar, Jay Hill, Nathan Fisher, Tom Brophy), the photography (Clyde Garrido), the music (Charles Henri-Avelange), the sound design (Jason Alberts), and the story (which is by the director). The thing that raises this work above so many other films is the director has a great grasp of film thinking. Meaning, he thinks in moving images and not pictures or words or plot. The scene with the wasp is permanently fixed in my mind.