‘Valley of the Gods’; a Film by Lech Majewski

‘Valley of the Gods’ will be released on streaming platforms on 11 August 2020, from Wellgo USA Entertainment

The Valley of the Gods is a sandstone valley in the American desert. It is an iconic landscape, best known to most people from Western films, many filmed in the nearby and similar Monument Vallery.

The fascination goes back even to the 19th-century, when Europeans first encountered the mysterious canyons and buttes (rock formations) in the desert, an earthly place, unlike anything they’d seen before. Here nature has carved the red sandstone into great temples and edifices like silhouettes of cities. It is a fitting backdrop for elemental stories about heroes and villains, the melodramatic essence of the Western.

But this landscape did not belong to the interlopers, it was always inhabited by native Americans, particular the Navajo, who approached the environment with their own interpretations, their own…