The Horse Brothers
2022 · 9m · Canada
Directed by Fabian Velasco, Milos Mitrovic
Genres: dark comedy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, dark, darkly comic, surreal
Two broke brothers on a remote Canadian farm scrape by selling used electronics until their horse Anton — voiced by experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin — whispers to the older brother that his sibling is stealing from him, unleashing a spiral of paranoia, betrayal, and violence.
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The scouts
Talking-horse paranoia thriller voiced by Guy Maddin, 16mm grain, red-tinted nightmares, Italian title cards. This is exactly my brand of nonsense — Vimeo gatekeeping me with a captcha only sweetens the pot.
Guy Maddin voicing a talking horse in a 16mm Italian-cinema pastiche — Velasco and Mitrovic are operating in genuine arthouse weirdness, closer to the gleeful nonsense of Quentin Dupieux than to Lynchian dread. Maddin's lineage as patron is the seal.
Guy Maddin voicing the talking horse on a 16mm-grain, red-tinted, Italian-title-card homage — that's a deeply specific cinephile bit and Maddin's presence is the seal of arthouse legitimacy. Vimeo bot-check blocked the page but the conception is fully formed.
Reviews
Horse Brothers is bold and bonkers filmmaking.
The Horse Brothers shines with its originality, humor and distinct visual style.
Festivals
- SXSW 2022