Jim O'Rourke

A Man's Mind Will Play Tricks on Him (Edit)

Video by Kyle Armstrong, containing footage from the original motion picture Hands That Bind.

Hands that Bind is a smoldering prairie gothic drama set in the 1980s in small town Alberta. Having severed ties with his father, Andy's opportunity to farm as a landowner has been jeopardized. He devotes his life to working another man’s land, trying to establish new roots with his wife and children, and with the hope that the land might one day be his. But those hopes are destroyed when his boss's ungrateful son unexpectedly returns. As Andy struggles with providing for his family in a world that is increasingly unfamiliar, a darkness settles over the community and mysterious occurrences begin; cattle mutilations, drought, a missing teenager, paranoia, and unexplained lights in the sky.

Starring:
Paul Sparks (Midnight Special, Boardwalk Empire, Waco)
Susan Kent (Trailer Park Boys, Spinster, 22 Minutes)
Landon Liboiron (Hemlock Grove, Frontier)
Nicholas Campbell (Cinderella Man, Naked Lunch, The Dead Zone)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska, Coming Home, The Hateful Eight)
Will Oldham, AKA Bonnie Prince Billy (A Ghost Story, Old Joy, Matewan)