‘With Horses’ (2023) is a rumination on living and dying on a damaged planet. In the film we encounter a newborn foal amidst a landscape of plastic waste and a dying horse struggling to breath. The use of fossil fuels for cheap synthetic plastics has produced a throwaway culture worldwide through economic globalisation. Its toxic residue is distributed throughout the planet and deposited in the earth’s soil, forming a geological layer materially transformed by human activity in the age now known as the Anthropocene. Composed of two long shots, ‘With Horses’ confronts us with the human impact on the non-human world.
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