Beast and Feast and Lucky / Josefin Arnell (SE)

Beast and Feast, 25 min 2023
TEASER 1min: https://vimeo.com/928720739

In the backdrop of mounted police rallies, a central protagonist knits together a narrative; a female police officer hunting for a perfect police horse. Her psychological torment and idealization of this perfect horse are then made terrifyingly real as she eventually starts a transformation into the horse she desires. Fiction scenes are mixed up with archive footage from recent riots and turbulent situations where police horses are utilized as weapons to engage in crowd control.

LUCKY / Let’s run, 11 min, 2019
A documentary that follows children and mothers on a guided tour, a bus trip behind the stable arena while their fathers and husbands bet on horses. On the guided tour, we learned; how to feed a horse a carrot; different shoe sizes for racing horses, and that the flesh of the horse becomes food to lions when the horse is too tired to run. The trip was booked by the communication department at Let’s Run Park Seoul after many attempts and requests to film inside the betting arena.