Horse Boobs

A serrated oval passageway, strobe light, title panels, "Pferdebusen – horse boobs," glittery curtain - horse´s mane - fade out. On the sound track, the sound of horse hooves, in the image, a theater space, details of glass and wood, seat grooves and crystal chandeliers, aroused horse eyes - cut to the starting shape: five protagonists move through this vagina dentata and thus begins the unfolding of a sexually compact visual dramaturgy in which human body and horse body meld in a beautiful and peculiar way: naked bottoms on saddles, leather masks hiding faces, horse anus and the bat of an eye. Wonderfully confusing, beguiling visual worlds are drafted in close-ups deployed like a fetish (camera: Hannes Böck). The point of culmination of every take is desire and fantasy; the gaze´s object and subject become one. The film closes with a climbing scene in a snowstorm. The five protagonists climb up the wall and without ropes, so it appears, resolutely upward, out, beyond the picture.

Horse Boobs is the fifth part of a series based on Arthur Schnitzler´s Dream Story. In the text, Katrina Daschner is interested in the ambiguity of fiction and reality, the tension of unrealized sexual desire of the middle-class couple. She deconstructs this framework in her development of queer relationship scenarios. In Horse Boobs, too, the filmmaker masterfully succeeds in staging the ruptures and irritations that are so essential for showing and wanting, with a subtle humor and grandiose human and non-human actors. (Christiane Erharter)

Translation: Lisa Rosenblatt

Orig. Title
Pferdebusen
Year
2017
Country
Austria
Duration
9 min
Director
Katrina Daschner
Category
Experimental
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
Credits
Director
Katrina Daschner
Script
Katrina Daschner
Cinematography
Hannes Böck
Editing
Katrina Daschner, Hannes Böck
Sound Mix
Oliver Stotz
Production
Katrina Daschner, Lady Chutney Production, Denice Bourbon
Actor/Actress
Nora Safranek, Gisi Hakanson, Sushila Mesquita, Hyo Lee, Denise Kottlett
Lighting
Hannes Böck, Denise Kamschal
Supported by
Land Niederösterreich, BKA - innovative film
Available Formats
Digital File (prores, h264)
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound Format
stereo
Frame Rate
25 fps
Color Format
colour
DCP 2K flat
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound Format
stereo
Frame Rate
24 fps
Color Format
colour
Festivals (Selection)
2017
Oberhausen - Int. Kurzfilmtage
Graz - Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films (Award for Innovative Cinema)
Uppsala - Int. Short Film Festival
Kassel - Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest
Winterthur - Kurzfilmtage
Victoria - Antimatter Underground Film Festival
2018
Bukarest - BIEFF Int Experimental Film Festival
Dresden - Filmfest
Ann Arbor - Film Festival
Sao Paulo - Mix Brasil