The Horse

  • Charles Burnett
  • 1973
  • United States
  • 14 minutes
  • English
  • DR
    DR

Four white men, a young black boy and his father, a horse: a moment suspended in time as daylight fades, while awaiting a killing, to the obsessive sound of a windmill. A snapshot of ordinary violence in what the filmmaker describes as “an allegory of the South”, inspired by Faulkner.

  • Production : Charles Burnett
  • Photography : Ian Conner
  • Cast : Gordon Houston; Maury Wright; Gary Morrin; Roger Collins; George Williams; Larry Clark