Scene from the film The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles
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The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles

Direction
Year 
2008
Country
  • Philippines
Duration
76min 
Subtitles 

After losing his job, a man starts walking aimlessly through Manila. Pushed on by existential fears, he feels magically drawn to horses, to the point that his obsessive fixation finally leads him to lose complete control over himself.

"This is not a film by Khavn." The opening credits mark the point of departure for this silent film. Without compromise the director makes it clear from the beginning that he refuses clearly defined conventions. He even acts subversively and anarchistically toward his own product. The Muzzled Horse Of An Engineer In Search Of Mechanical Saddles, peppered with horse symbols and underscored with electronic punk music, is conceivable as a surreal film, full of contradictions and ambivalences. Over four narrative sections, the film dives into the deep psychic levels of its main character and turns them inside out. With raw energy, it hurls obsessions of sex and violence at the spectator, supported by images full of force. Subtitles that reproduce pornographic streams of thought expose the protagonist's escalating constraints. Idiosyncratic and fascinating, the director presents a demoralized individual on the run who, driven on by both masculinity and monstrosity, wants to flee culture and society. Yet at the end of his odyssey, he still remains their prisoner. (Ansgar Vogt)

Details

  • Original title
    The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Alvin Yapan, Khavn De La Cruz, Angelo V. Suarez
  • DOP
    Albert Banzon
  • Music
    Roxlee
  • Duration
    76 min (46-90 min.)
  • Year
    2008
  • Country
    • Philippines
  • Colour
    • Colour
  • Production

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