After their successful production The Ecstatic, the nine Pantsula artists of Impilo Mapantsula and Jeremy Nedd are now working together again to explore the “western”. The western is, without doubt, the film genre that contains the most stereotypes about the hero, the “other” and the empty, wild landscape that have become so deeply engrained in the collective memory. From Clint Eastwood to the Marlboro cowboy – we see white, heroic men before our inner eye, galloping away on majestic horses into an even more majestic, seemingly untouched landscape. But they are definitely not images of pantsulas. How a falling star hit up the purple sky is a dynamic visual poem that proposes a paradigm shift, re-thinks the idea of the archetype and hopefully invites a re-assessment of the psychic and geographical spaces occupied by the western, the (Wild) West, and the South.