Upon completing Missoula Ranch Locators—Vision Encompassed, Nancy Holt created the 16 mm film Missoula Ranch Locators, which she exhibited in a solo exhibition at the University of Montana Art Gallery. The film shows the outdoor work in use, highlighting its scale and its capacity to frame perception. Moving image was an important medium for Holt, and her films and videos invite viewers to look alongside the artist. 

Writing in Artforum (May 2014), Lucy Lippard noted: "[Holt’s] early “Locator” works from 1972 were T-shaped pipes through which the viewer focused on land- and cityscapes apparently too vast to be “seen,” implying that the eye is a hole in the body connecting body to environment and vice versa. All Holt’s public works are tools for seeing. Viewers don’t look at them but through them to discover other realms.”