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The Horse

Charles Burnett
1973 United States 14 minutes English

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; Gordon Houston; Maury Wright; Gary Morrin; Roger Collins; George Williams; Larry Clark