Piaffe
An introverted Foley artist unexpectedly grows a horsetail, sparking a sexual awakening, in Ann Oren’s astonishing debut. Screened at Locarno, San Sebastian and London Film Festivals.
When her sibling suffers a nervous breakdown, Eva (Simone Bucio, The Untamed, SFF 2017) covers for her as a Foley artist designing a client’s commercial. Initially, Eva struggles to create the correct sounds for a trotting horse. But she immerses herself in the process, and eventually finds herself growing a horsetail of her own. Instead of fear or shame, Eva is liberated by her new appendage and initiates a kinky power relationship with a mysterious botanist. Ethereal and mystifying, Oren’s experimental film expands on her visual art practice of performing fantasies. Oren’s aesthetics, coupled with Carlos Vasquez’s 16mm cinematography, makes this imaginative gem a sensuous feast for the eyes and ears. Films showing at this event:
The Beginning
An alien in human form has foreseen the coming apocalypse. One of his followers agrees to sacrifice herself to avert disaster. But Lachlan sees through it – and sets out to save her.
Tickets
Thu 8 Jun
7:50pm
Palace Central Cinemas - Cinema 1
Tue 13 Jun
8:30pm
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3
- Program Strand
- Features
- Year
- 2022
- Classification
- Unclassified 18+
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- In German and English with English subtitles
- Director
- Ann Oren
- Producer
- Kristof Gerega, Sophie Ahrens, Fabian Altenried
- Cast
- Simone Bucio, Sebastian Rudolph, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau
- Screenwriter
- Ann Oren, Thais Guisasola
- Cinematographer
- Carlos Vasquez
- Editor
- Ann Oren, Haim Tabakman
- Premiere
- Australian Premiere
- Genre
- Cinephile, Off-Beat, Women Directors, Experimental, Gender & Sexuality, Arts
- Company Credits
- Sales Agent: Rediance Films
